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title: They argue, then laugh at how daft it is, and leave a gap by the door. — Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room · tree and pragmatics
description: They argue, then laugh at how daft it is, and leave a gap by the door. Who acts: Pranks, door. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room, sentence 11

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They argue, then laugh at how daft it is, and leave a gap by the door.

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**Who acts:** Pranks, door · **What happens:** argue, laugh, be, leave · **To what, where:** gap

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room» 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 (Pranks, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:11
# text = They argue, then laugh at how daft it is, and leave a gap by the door.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.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	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	daft	daft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	gap	gap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | Pranks *= prank* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | infinitive | Pranks *= prank* *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | door |  |  |  |  | daft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | Pranks *= prank* *not said here* | a gap |  |  |  | by the door | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gap=Theme by door=Location |

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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:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:11`.

**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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