Our street against theirs, sentence 20
Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choice in the group.
Who acts: Refusing, gang · What happens: refuse, not join, allow, be · To what, where: gang, bravest choice, group
This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday 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 (Refusing, gang), 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 | Refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 allowed | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 join | mark |
| 3 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Refusing | xcomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gang | det |
| 5 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 join | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 allowed | aux:pass |
| 7 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 choice | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 choice | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 choice | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 choice | cop |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 choice | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 choice | det |
| 14 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 choice | amod |
| 15 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 allowed | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 group | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 group | det |
| 18 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 choice | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | gerund | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not join | to-infinitive | a gang | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gang=Patient | |||||
| 3 | allow | present · passive | Refusing | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING» | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | gang | the bravest choice | the group | often property | tree rules |
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:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:20.
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.
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