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title: Grown-ups can hold grudges for years, sometimes after forgetting wha… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups can hold grudges for years, sometimes after forgetting what started them. Who acts: Grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper, sentence 25

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Grown-ups can hold grudges for years, sometimes after forgetting what started them.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups · **What happens:** hold, forget, start · **To what, where:** grudges

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shopkeeper» 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 (Grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:25
# text = Grown-ups can hold grudges for years, sometimes after forgetting what started them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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	Grown	grow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	grudges	grudge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
11	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
14	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | can | Grown ups | grudges |  |  | year |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grudge=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | gerund | Grown ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | past |  | grudges *= grudge* |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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