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title: Kieran's family and Jake's family haven't spoken since a row about a… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: family, boys. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p
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# Feuds between families, sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** family, boys · **What happens:** not speak, tell, not play · **To what, where:** boys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» 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 (family, boys), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:1
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 474-feuds-between-families.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	since	since	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	parking	parking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl:unmarked
20	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	together	together	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Kieran's family and Jake's family |  |  |  | since a row about a parking space | ago *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:474-feuds-between-families.lesson:1`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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