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title: Playing one parent against the other to get treats usually causes mo… — Parents who row, and one kind and one not · tree and pragmatics
description: Playing one parent against the other to get treats usually causes more rows and backfires. Who acts: Playing. 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 37

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Playing one parent against the other to get treats usually causes more rows and backfires.

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**Who acts:** Playing · **What happens:** play, get, cause, backfire · **To what, where:** one parent, treats, more rows

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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 (Playing), 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:37
# text = Playing one parent against the other to get treats usually causes more rows and backfires.
# 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): no change
1	Playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	backfires	backfire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **play** | gerund |  | one parent |  |  |  | against the other | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | treats |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treat=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cause** | present | Playing | more rows |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition row=Patient |
| 4 | **backfire** | present | Playing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:37`.

**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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