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title: Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue abo… — Votes, parties and the people in charge · tree and pragmatics
description: Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold. Who acts: Grandad, gravy. A sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Votes, parties and the people in charge, sentence 4

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Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.

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**Who acts:** Grandad, gravy · **What happens:** argue, go · **To what, where:** Christmas dinner

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Votes, parties and the people in charge» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandad, gravy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:4
# text = Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:nmod
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Auntie	Auntie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Jo	Jo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gravy	gravy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
21	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Grandad and Auntie |  |  | Christmas dinner in Leeds |  | about the government | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about government=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | present | the gravy |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:031-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge.lesson:4`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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