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title: A joke feud, like a cooking contest between neighbours, is fine as l… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics
description: A joke feud, like a cooking contest between neighbours, is fine as long as everyone is in on the joke. Who acts: joke feud, everyone. 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 33

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A joke feud, like a cooking contest between neighbours, is fine as long as everyone is in on the joke.

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**Who acts:** joke feud, everyone · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** joke

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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 (joke feud, everyone), 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:33
# text = A joke feud, like a cooking contest between neighbours, is fine as long as everyone is in on the joke.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feud	feud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	contest	contest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is** | present | a joke feud like a cooking contest between neighbours |  |  |  |  | fine, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | everyone |  |  | the joke |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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