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title: Fighting over a thing often means losing the thing. — Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room · tree and pragmatics
description: Fighting over a thing often means losing the thing. Who acts: Fighting. 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 20

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Fighting over a thing often means losing the thing.

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**Who acts:** Fighting · **What happens:** fight, mean, lose · **To what, where:** thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Fighting), 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:20
# text = Fighting over a thing often means losing the thing.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | over a thing | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent over thing=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Fighting |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **lose** *not said to happen* | gerund | Fighting *not said here* | the thing |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:508-fighting-ignoring-each-other-and-sharing-a-room.lesson:20`.

**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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