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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 make	advmod
2	political	political	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arguments	amod
3	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 fall	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
9	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	conj
10	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 reconcile	punct
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 families	amod
13	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 reconcile	nsubj
14	reconcile	reconcile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 agreeing	punct
16	often	often	ADV	_	18 agreeing	advmod
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 agreeing	mark
18	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reconcile	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 talk	mark
20	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 agreeing	xcomp
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 things	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 things	amod
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 talk	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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, 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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