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title: He isn't: parents arguing about how to bring up a child is common, a… — Parents who row, and one kind and one not · tree and pragmatics
description: He isn't: parents arguing about how to bring up a child is common, and it's about them. Who acts: parents, row. A sentence of the lesson «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Parents who row, and one kind and one not, sentence 19

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He isn't: parents arguing about how to bring up a child is common, and it's about them.

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**Who acts:** parents, row · **What happens:** argue, bring up, be · **To what, where:** child

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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 (parents, row), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.lesson:19
# text = He isn't: parents arguing about how to bring up a child is common, and it's about them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
6	arguing	argue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15: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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | gerund | parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | parents *not said here* | a child |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | parents |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | row |  |  |  |  | about bills *= bill* | 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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**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:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not.lesson:19`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-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/).

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