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title: Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at one table, everyone has views, and the turkey is getting cold. Who acts: Big family dinners, everyone, turkey. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary
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# Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 0

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Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at one table, everyone has views, and the turkey is getting cold.

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**Who acts:** Big family dinners, everyone, turkey · **What happens:** be, have, get · **To what, where:** one table, views

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics 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 (Big family dinners, everyone, turkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:0
# text = Big family dinners are where politics often explodes: everyone is at one table, everyone has views, and the turkey is getting cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = politics
# lesson = 015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.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
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dinners	dinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
6	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nsubj	_	_
7	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
8	explodes	explode	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
25	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | Big family dinners |  |  |  |  | explode, often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | everyone |  |  | one table |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | everyone | views |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | present · progressive | the turkey |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): R5-strong ×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.

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