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title: It is fair to ask not to be put in the middle of your parents' disag… — Parents who row, and one kind and one not · tree and pragmatics
description: It is fair to ask not to be put in the middle of your parents' disagreement. Who acts: parents. 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 36

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It is fair to ask not to be put in the middle of your parents' disagreement.

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**Who acts:** parents · **What happens:** be, ask, not put, disagree · **To what, where:** middle

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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), 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:36
# text = It is fair to ask not to be put in the middle of your parents' disagreement.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **put** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | the middle of your parents's disagreement |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in middle=Destination |
| 4 | **disagree** |  | your parents |  |  |  |  |  | nom disagreement «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:36`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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