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title: Real fights are messy and ugly, not like on TV. — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Real fights are messy and ugly, not like on TV. Who acts: Real fights. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 19

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Real fights are messy and ugly, not like on TV.

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**Who acts:** Real fights · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (Real fights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:19
# text = Real fights are messy and ugly, not like on TV.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.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): no change
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Real fights |  |  |  |  | messy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Real fights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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): no change. **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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