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title: Even friends who scream horrible things at each other can make up if… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics
description: Even friends who scream horrible things at each other can make up if both say sorry and mean it; "bury the hatchet" means stop fighting. Who acts: friends, both. A sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Fights, racism and being a bystander, sentence 11

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Even friends who scream horrible things at each other can make up if both say sorry and mean it; "bury the hatchet" means stop fighting.

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**Who acts:** friends, both · **What happens:** scream, make up, say, mean, bury, stop · **To what, where:** horrible things, each, sorry, thing, hatchet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fights, racism and being a bystander» of the reflection 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 (friends, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:11
# text = Even friends who scream horrible things at each other can make up if both say sorry and mean it; "bury the hatchet" means stop fighting.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	scream	scream	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	fixed	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Tot
15	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
18	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bury	bury	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	csubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
27	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
28	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	xcomp	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scream** *speech: express* | present | friends | horrible things |  | each |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **make up** | can | friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | both | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |
| 4 | **mean** | present | both *not said here* | thing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **bury** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the hatchet |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hatchet=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **stop** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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