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title: Two brothers in Melbourne both want the TV; after cooling down, they… — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics
description: Two brothers in Melbourne both want the TV; after cooling down, they agree that one watches his show now and the other picks the film after dinner, and nobody has to cry. Who acts: Two brothers, brothers, one, other. A sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday course of M
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# Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 4

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Two brothers in Melbourne both want the TV; after cooling down, they agree that one watches his show now and the other picks the film after dinner, and nobody has to cry.

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**Who acts:** Two brothers, brothers, one, other, nobody, Melbourne · **What happens:** want, cool down, agree, watch, pick, have · **To what, where:** TV, show, film · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» 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 (Two brothers, brothers, one, other), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:4
# text = Two brothers in Melbourne both want the TV; after cooling down, they agree that one watches his show now and the other picks the film after dinner, and nobody has to cry.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 054-solving-disagreements-calmly.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Melbourne	Melbourne	PROPN	NNP	_	2	nmod	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	TV	TV	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	agree	agree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind
18	watches	watch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:det
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	_
25	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
32	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
33	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **want** | present | Two brothers in Melbourne | the TV |  |  |  | both *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tv=Theme |
| 2 | **cool down** | gerund | brothers *= brother* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **watch** | present | one | Melbourne's show |  |  | now |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Theme |
| 5 | **pick** | present | the other | the film |  |  | after dinner |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **show** |  | Melbourne |  |  |  |  |  | nom show «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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