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title: Enjoying treats from grandparents is fine, but using them to argue w… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: Enjoying treats from grandparents is fine, but using them to argue with your parents causes rows. Who acts: Enjoying, using. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 30

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Enjoying treats from grandparents is fine, but using them to argue with your parents causes rows.

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**Who acts:** Enjoying, using · **What happens:** enjoy, be, use, argue, cause · **To what, where:** treats, grandparents, rows

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 (Enjoying, using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:30
# text = Enjoying treats from grandparents is fine, but using them to argue with your parents causes rows.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	argue	argue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advcl
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **enjoy** | gerund |  | treats |  | grandparents |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | Enjoying |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **use** | gerund |  | grandparents *= grandparent* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Theme clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your parents | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with parent=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **cause** | present | using | rows |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition row=Patient |

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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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:30`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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