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title: Children are often caught in the middle of grown-ups' feuds, even th… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics
description: Children are often caught in the middle of grown-ups' feuds, even though they did nothing wrong. Who acts: Children, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Feuds between families» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Feuds between families, sentence 25

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Children are often caught in the middle of grown-ups' feuds, even though they did nothing wrong.

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**Who acts:** Children, grown ups · **What happens:** catch, grow, do, feud · **To what, where:** Children, middle, nothing

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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 (Children, grown ups), 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:25
# text = Children are often caught in the middle of grown-ups' feuds, even though they did nothing wrong.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	feuds	feud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advcl
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present · passive |  | Children |  | the middle of grown ups's feuds |  | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Children *= child* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feud** |  | grown ups |  |  |  |  |  | nom feud «act intransitive»: poss=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:25`.

**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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