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title: A real apology and a simple agreement can turn a quarrel with a neig… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics
description: A real apology and a simple agreement can turn a quarrel with a neighbour into peace. Who acts: real apology. A sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 30

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A real apology and a simple agreement can turn a quarrel with a neighbour into peace.

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**Who acts:** real apology · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** quarrel, peace

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 apology), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:30
# text = A real apology and a simple agreement can turn a quarrel with a neighbour into peace.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apology	apology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **turn** | can | a real apology and a simple agreement | a quarrel |  | peace |  | with a neighbour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent quarrel=Theme into peace=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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:30`.

**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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