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title: Friends can disagree about politics and still share lunch. — China: modern China, space and contested topics · tree and pragmatics
description: Friends can disagree about politics and still share lunch. Who acts: Friends. A sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# China: modern China, space and contested topics, sentence 8

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Friends can disagree about politics and still share lunch.

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**Who acts:** Friends · **What happens:** disagree, share · **To what, where:** lunch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China: modern China, space and contested topics» of the history 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 (Friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:8
# text = Friends can disagree about politics and still share lunch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.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 ×3
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	disagree	disagree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod
8	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **disagree** | can | Friends |  |  |  |  | about politics | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about politics=Topic |
| 2 | **share** | infinitive | Friends *not said here* | lunch |  |  | still |  | 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:history:059-china-modern-china-space-and-contested-topics.lesson:8`.

**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 ×3. **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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