What people leave behind, sentence 7

Families sometimes argue over who gets what after a death, especially a house, because grief makes people touchy and old quarrels come back.

Who acts: Families, grief, old quarrels · What happens: argue, get, make, come back · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What people leave behind» of the adult life 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 (Families, grief, old quarrels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 argue	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 argue	advmod
3	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	SCONJ	_	6 gets	mark
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gets	nsubj
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 argue	ccomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 gets	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 death	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 death	det
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 house	punct
12	especially	especially	ADV	_	14 house	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 makes	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	18 makes	mark
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 makes	nsubj
18	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 argue	advcl
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 makes	obj
20	touchy	touchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 makes	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 come	cc
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 quarrels	amod
23	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 makes	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 argue	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	present	Families			sometimes property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	present			after a death		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	make	present	grief	people		touchy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
4	come back	present	old quarrels				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:adult-life:026-what-people-leave-behind.lesson:7.

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 ×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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