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title: For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Ro… — Making peace between the streets · tree and pragmatics
description: For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, and mostly over who had started it, which nobody could actually remember. Who acts: anyone, street, corner shop, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Making peace betwe
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# Making peace between the streets, sentence 0

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For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, and mostly over who had started it, which nobody could actually remember.

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**Who acts:** anyone, street, corner shop, nobody · **What happens:** remember, be, start · **To what, where:** war, tree, corner shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Making peace between the streets» 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 (anyone, street, corner shop, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:394-making-peace-between-the-streets.lesson:0
# text = For as long as anyone could remember, Maddie's street and Station Road had been at war — over the rec, the corner shop, the best tree, and mostly over who had started it, which nobody could actually remember.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 394-making-peace-between-the-streets.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
19	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rec	rec	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	parataxis	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	started	start	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obj	_	_
41	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	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 | **remember** | could | anyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Maddie's street and Station Road |  |  | war |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past · perfect | the corner shop | tree |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 4 | **remember** | could | nobody | the corner shop |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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:394-making-peace-between-the-streets.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-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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