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title: People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or keep them politics-free. Who acts: People, families. A sentence of the lesson «Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends» of the politics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 19

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People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or keep them politics-free.

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**Who acts:** People, families · **What happens:** disagree, talk, keep · **To what, where:** politics, holidays, People

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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 (People, 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:19
# text = People disagree whether families should talk politics at holidays or keep them politics-free.
# 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): no change
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	disagree	disagree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	politics	politics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **disagree** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | should | families | politics |  | holidays |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent politics=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | families *not said here* | People |  |  |  | free *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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:politics:015-grandma-and-uncle-on-opposite-sides-staying-friends.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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