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title: Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish… — Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness · tree and pragmatics
description: Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat. Who acts: Neighbours, friendly chat. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Neighbours, the council, rules and fairness, sentence 10

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Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat.

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**Who acts:** Neighbours, friendly chat · **What happens:** disagree, solve · **To what, where:** most disputes

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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 (Neighbours, friendly chat), 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:10
# text = Neighbours sometimes disagree about hedges, fences, noise or rubbish, and most disputes are solved by a friendly chat.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	disputes	dispute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	solved	solve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chat	chat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:agent	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **disagree** | present | Neighbours |  |  |  |  | about hedges and fences and noise or rubbish; sometimes *property* | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about hedge=Topic |
| 2 | **solve** | present · passive | a friendly chat | most disputes |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |

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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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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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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