--- title: Two families on Sam's street go to war over a hedge, with solicitor'… — Feuds between families · tree and pragmatics description: Two families on Sam's street go to war over a hedge, with solicitor's letters (a solicitor is a kind of lawyer), and the two best mates are banned from playing. Who acts: Two families, solicitor. 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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 (Two families, solicitor), 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:9 # text = Two families on Sam's street go to war over a hedge, with solicitor's letters (a solicitor is a kind of lawyer), and the two best mates are banned from playing. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hedge hedge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 solicitor solicitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 solicitor solicitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 lawyer lawyer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 31 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 banned ban VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 35 from from SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 36 playing play VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:obl 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Two families on Sam's street | | | a hedge | | to war; with solicitor's letters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to war=Initial\_Location over hedge=Destination | | 2 | **is a** | present | a solicitor | a kind | | | | of lawyer | tree rules | | 3 | **ban** | present · passive | | the two best mates | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **play** | gerund | | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **letter** | | solicitor | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/8/) - next →: [Feuds between families, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/474-feuds-between-families/)