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title: Derbies are games between local rivals; rivalry is fine as banter, n… — VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries · tree and pragmatics
description: Derbies are games between local rivals; rivalry is fine as banter, not as fights or hate. Who acts: Derbies, rivalry. A sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries, sentence 11

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Derbies are games between local rivals; rivalry is fine as banter, not as fights or hate.

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**Who acts:** Derbies, rivalry · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** games

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This is a sentence of the lesson «VAR rows, referees, fans and rivalries» of the medicine 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 (Derbies, rivalry), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.lesson:11
# text = Derbies are games between local rivals; rivalry is fine as banter, not as fights or hate.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.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 ×1
1	Derbies	derby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	games	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	banter	banter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fights	fight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Derbies | games |  |  |  | between local rivals | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | rivalry |  |  |  |  | as banter; fine *property* | 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:medicine:065-var-rows-referees-fans-and-rivalries.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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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