Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 24
A gang name can make someone feel important, but it does not make them safer or more respected by people who matter.
Who acts: gang name, someone, name, people · What happens: make, feel, not make, matter · To what, where: someone, adults
This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (gang name, someone, name, people), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 2 | gang | gang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 name | compound |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 8 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 make | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 make | advmod |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 respected | cc |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 respected | advmod |
| 19 | respected | respected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 safer | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 respected | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 matter | nsubj |
| 23 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | a gang name | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | infinitive | someone not said here | important property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | name | adults = adult | safe property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | |||
| 4 | matter | present | people | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:24.
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 ×2, 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.
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