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title: Fighting over a road name gets people hurt, gets property damaged, a… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics
description: Fighting over a road name gets people hurt, gets property damaged, and turns friends and cousins into «enemies» for nothing. Who acts: Fighting, people, property. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Our street against theirs, sentence 13

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Fighting over a road name gets people hurt, gets property damaged, and turns friends and cousins into «enemies» for nothing.

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**Who acts:** Fighting, people, property · **What happens:** fight, get, hurt, damage, turn · **To what, where:** people, property, friends, enemies

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» 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 (Fighting, people, property), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:13
# text = Fighting over a road name gets people hurt, gets property damaged, and turns friends and cousins into «enemies» for nothing.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over a road name | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over name=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | present | Fighting | people |  |  |  | for nothing | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | participle | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **get** | present |  | property |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **damage** | participle | property *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | present |  | friends and cousins |  | enemies |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent friend=Theme into enemy=Trajectory |

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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:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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