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title: "Estranged" means not in contact any more after a quarrel. — Soft words for hard things: relations and family · tree and pragmatics
description: "Estranged" means not in contact any more after a quarrel. A sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soft words for hard things: relations and family, sentence 10

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"Estranged" means not in contact any more after a quarrel.

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**What happens:** estrange, mean · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: relations and family» of the euphemisms 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:10
# text = "Estranged" means not in contact any more after a quarrel.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = euphemisms
# lesson = 013-relations-and-family.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 ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Estranged	estrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	any	any	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Ind
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **estrange** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  | after a quarrel | in contact | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in contact=Attribute |

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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:euphemisms:013-relations-and-family.lesson:10`.

**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 ×2. **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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