--- title: Seeing parents make up after an argument is a good thing: people can… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Seeing parents make up after an argument is a good thing: people can disagree and still love each other. Who acts: parents, Seeing, people. A sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/) / 7 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 7 Seeing parents make up after an argument is a good thing: people can disagree and still love each other. **Who acts:** parents, Seeing, people · **What happens:** see, make up, be, disagree, love · **To what, where:** good thing, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» 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 (parents, Seeing, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:7 # text = Seeing parents make up after an argument is a good thing: people can disagree and still love each other. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.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 Seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 2 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 disagree disagree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:acl:relcl 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 19 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 18 obj _ _ 20 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 fixed _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **make up** | present | parents | | | | after a argument | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | Seeing | a good thing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **disagree** | can | people | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **love** | present | people *not said here* | each | | | still | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | 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. **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:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:7`. **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. 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