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title: Most of the time it goes smoothly, but small things like a hedge or… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Most of the time it goes smoothly, but small things like a hedge or a parked car can grow into big rows. Who acts: it, small things. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 1

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Most of the time it goes smoothly, but small things like a hedge or a parked car can grow into big rows.

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**Who acts:** it, small things · **What happens:** go, park, grow · **To what, where:** Most, big rows

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» 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 (it, small things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:1
# text = Most of the time it goes smoothly, but small things like a hedge or a parked car can grow into big rows.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	parked	park	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **go** | present | it | Most of the time |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **park** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **grow** | can | small things like a hedge or a parked car |  |  |  |  | into big rows *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into row=Result |

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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:033-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness.lesson:1`.

**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): 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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