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title: Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said… — Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying fri… · tree and pragmatics
description: Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said older and younger people often voted very differently, for example in the Brexit vote of 2016, when the UK voted on leaving the European Union. Who acts: Different generations, news reports, older people, UK. A sentence of the lesso
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# Grandma and Uncle on opposite sides: staying friends, sentence 9

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Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said older and younger people often voted very differently, for example in the Brexit vote of 2016, when the UK voted on leaving the European Union.

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**Who acts:** Different generations, news reports, older people, UK · **What happens:** grow up, say, vote, leave · **To what, where:** Brexit vote, European Union · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Different generations, news reports, older people, UK), 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:9
# text = Different generations grew up in different times; news reports said older and younger people often voted very differently, for example in the Brexit vote of 2016, when the UK voted on leaving the European Union.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	reports	report	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
12	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	conj	_	_
15	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Brexit	Brexit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
26	vote	vote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nmod
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	2016	2016	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	voted	vote	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	European	European	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Union	Union	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow up** | past | Different generations |  |  |  | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | news reports |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **vote** | past | older people |  |  | the Brexit vote of 2016 |  | for example *goal*; differently, often *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent for example=Goal |
| 4 | **vote** | past | the UK |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund | the UK *not said here* | the European Union |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent union=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:9`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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