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title: A girl in California sent an angry message in the middle of a row; i… — Solving disagreements calmly · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in California sent an angry message in the middle of a row; it was shared around the class, and the friendship took months to mend. Who acts: girl, friendship. A sentence of the lesson «Solving disagreements calmly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Solving disagreements calmly, sentence 6

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A girl in California sent an angry message in the middle of a row; it was shared around the class, and the friendship took months to mend.

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**Who acts:** girl, friendship · **What happens:** send, share, take, mend · **To what, where:** angry message, middle, message, class

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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 (girl, friendship), 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:6
# text = A girl in California sent an angry message in the middle of a row; it was shared around the class, and the friendship took months to mend.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
19	around	around	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	mend	mend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **send** | past | a girl in California | a angry message |  | the middle of a row |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **share** | past · passive |  | message |  | the class |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | the friendship |  |  |  | month |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mend** | to-infinitive | the friendship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:054-solving-disagreements-calmly.lesson:6`.

**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 ×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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