--- title: Many fights turn out to be about almost nothing once people slow dow… — Jake and the head teacher · tree and pragmatics description: Many fights turn out to be about almost nothing once people slow down and look closely. Who acts: Many fights, people. A sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/17/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Jake and the head teacher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/) / 17 # Jake and the head teacher, sentence 17 Many fights turn out to be about almost nothing once people slow down and look closely. **Who acts:** Many fights, people · **What happens:** turn out, be, slow down, look · **To what, where:** nothing This is a sentence of the lesson «Jake and the head teacher» 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 (Many fights, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:17 # text = Many fights turn out to be about almost nothing once people slow down and look closely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 6 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 xcomp _ _ 10 once once SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 closely closely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn out** | present | Many fights | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Many fights *not said here* | nothing | | | | about, almost *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **slow down** | present | people | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **look** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:everyday:373-jake-and-the-head-teacher.lesson:17`. **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, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Jake and the head teacher, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/16/) - next →: [Jake and the head teacher, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/373-jake-and-the-head-teacher/)