--- title: Feuds between families — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Feuds between families», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A feud is a long quarrel between families or groups, sometimes lasting years after everyone has forgotten how it started. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/) [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/) / Feuds between families # Feuds between families Lesson 474 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 32 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/0/) — A feud is a long quarrel between families or groups, sometimes lasting years after everyone has forgotten how it started. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/1/) — Kieran's family and Jake's family haven't spoken since a row about a parking space three years ago, and the boys are told not to play together. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/2/) — Then they land in the same class and get on, quietly, keeping it secret at home. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/3/) — It feels horrible. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/5/) — One day Kieran asks his mum why she won't talk to Jake's mum. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/7/) — It's a start. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/8/) — Kids often pay for grown-ups' rows. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/9/) — Two families on Sam's street go to war over a hedge, with solicitor's letters (a solicitor is a kind of lawyer), and the two best mates are banned from playing. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/10/) — They still play football at school and wave from their bedroom windows. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/12/) — Some feuds end with one kind move. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/13/) — Maddie's nan and Mrs Dobbs haven't spoken for twenty years («She knows what she did», nobody else does). - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/14/) — When Nan gets pneumonia, a bad chest illness, Mrs Dobbs leaves soup on the step. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/15/) — Nan cries, and they talk over the fence again. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/16/) — On Chloe's road two Irish grannies have feuded since a 1997 wedding: «That eejit never paid for the cake!» (an eejit is an idiot). - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/17/) — «Sure the cake was stale!» At a christening they end up singing together, crying, and it's over. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/18/) — Some are only a game: Mia's uncle in Texas yells over the fence every Fourth of July, «Y'all's brisket is drier than the Alamo!», and the cook-off ends with everyone eating both. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/19/) — Connor has never met his cousins, because his dad and his uncle haven't spoken for eight years; he finally meets them at his grandma's funeral, and they get on straight away. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/20/) — And some never end. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/21/) — Sam's grandad and his brother Roy fell out for forty years over their mum's clock. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/22/) — When Roy dies, Grandad doesn't go to the funeral. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/23/) — Later he tells Sam, «I'd give that clock away ten times to have one more pint with him.» - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/24/) — A feud is a long quarrel between families or groups; it can last years after the reason is forgotten. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/25/) — Children are often caught in the middle of grown-ups' feuds, even though they did nothing wrong. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/26/) — It is fine to tell a parent honestly how a family feud makes you feel. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/27/) — Children can stay friends even when their parents have fallen out. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/28/) — One kind act, like bringing soup to someone ill, can end a feud. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/29/) — Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud has no reason left. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/30/) — It is fairer to judge a person by what they do, not by their family. - [31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/31/) — Sad events like funerals sometimes bring families back together, but it is better not to wait for one. - [32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/32/) — Some feuds are never mended, and people often regret it for the rest of their lives. - [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/33/) — A joke feud, like a cooking contest between neighbours, is fine as long as everyone is in on the joke. - [34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/34/) — «Y'all» is Southern US for «you all»; «eejit» is Irish for idiot; «sure» at the start of an Irish sentence just means «well». - ← previous: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/) - next →: [The row over a game](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/475-the-row-over-a-game/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)