--- title: Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud ha… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud has no reason left. Who acts: we, Asking, grown ups, feud. 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. --- [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/29/) [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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/) / 29 # Feuds between families, sentence 29 Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud has no reason left. **Who acts:** we, Asking, grown ups, feud · **What happens:** ask, fight, help, see, have, leave · **To what, where:** reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (we, Asking, grown ups, feud), 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:29 # text = Asking «why are we still fighting?» can help grown-ups see a feud has no reason left. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Asking ask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:parataxis 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 14 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 feud feud NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 19 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 20 det _ _ 20 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed indirect=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **fight** *in a quote* | present · progressive | we | | | | still | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **help** | can | Asking | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | grown ups | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | a feud | no reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 6 | **leave** | participle | | no reason *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:29`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/28/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/30/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)