--- title: Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually… — Fighting, ignoring each other and sharing a room · tree and pragmatics description: Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better as they grow. Who acts: Brothers, lot. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, lot), 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:27 # text = Brothers and sisters close in age often fight a lot, and it usually gets better as they grow. # 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 1 Brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 close close VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 16 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **close** | present | Brothers and sisters | | | | in age | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in age=Topic | | 2 | **fight** | present | Brothers and sisters *not said here* | a lot | | | | often *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** | present | lot | | | | | good, usually *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **grow** | present | Brothers *= brother* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:27`. **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. **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. 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