--- title: Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talki… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things. Who acts: political arguments, relatives, many families. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Politics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/) / [Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/15-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends/) / 12 # Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 12 Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things. **Who acts:** political arguments, relatives, many families · **What happens:** make, fall out, stop, talk, reconcile, agree · **To what, where:** relatives 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 (political arguments, relatives, many families), 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:12 # text = Sometimes political arguments make relatives fall out and stop talking; many families reconcile, often by agreeing to talk about other things. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 2 political political ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 arguments argument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 out out ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 reconcile reconcile VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 by by SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | political arguments | relatives | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall out** | infinitive | relatives *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | present | relatives *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **talk** | gerund | relatives *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **reconcile** | present | many families | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | many families *not said here* | | | | | often *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many families *not said here* | | | | | about other things | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic | 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. **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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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