--- title: Some are only a game: Mia's uncle in Texas yells over the fence ever… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Some, uncle, brisket, cook off. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, uncle, brisket, cook off), 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:18 # text = 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. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 5 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 yells yell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 Fourth fourth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 July July PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 Y'all Y'all PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 brisket brisket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 drier dry ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 parataxis _ _ 27 than than ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Alamo alamo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 ! ! PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 cook cook NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 37 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 38 obl _ _ 41 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 41 obj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Some | a game | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | Mia's uncle Texas | every Fourth of July | | the fence | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Y'all's brisket | | | | | than the Alamo; dry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **end** | present | the cook off | | | | | with everyone | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with everyone=Subeventuality | | 5 | **eat** | gerund | | both | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient | 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. **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:18`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Feuds between families, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/17/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)