--- title: Connor has never met his cousins, because his dad and his uncle have… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: Connor, dad, uncle. 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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 (Connor, dad, uncle), 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:19 # text = 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. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Connor Connor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 finally finally ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 34 on on ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 straight straight ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **meet** | present · perfect | Connor | Connor's cousins | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Co-Agent | | 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | present · perfect | Connor's dad and Connor's uncle | | | | year | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **meet** | present | uncle | dad | | uncle's grandma's funeral | | finally *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | | 4 | **get on** | present | dad | | | | | away *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:19`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Feuds between families, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/18/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)