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title: When a group disagrees, it listens to each idea, then votes or tries… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics
description: When a group disagrees, it listens to each idea, then votes or tries a mix of ideas. Who acts: group. A sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 9

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When a group disagrees, it listens to each idea, then votes or tries a mix of ideas.

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**Who acts:** group · **What happens:** disagree, listen, try · **To what, where:** mix

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday 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 (group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:9
# text = When a group disagrees, it listens to each idea, then votes or tries a mix of ideas.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	disagrees	disagree	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	listens	listen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	votes	vote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | a group |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **listen** | present | group |  |  |  |  | to each idea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to idea=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | present | group *not said here* | a mix of ideas |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Eventuality |

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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:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:9`.

**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, 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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