Respect: how it is earned, sentence 12
Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect.
Who acts: Kieran, hardest kid · What happens: think, be, earn · To what, where: hardest kid, street, respect · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (Kieran, hardest kid), 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 | Kieran | Kieran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 kid | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 6 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 kid | amod |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earned | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 street | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 street | det |
| 10 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kid | nmod |
| 11 | earned | earn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 12 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 earned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Kieran | still | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the hardest kid | the street | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | earn | past | the hardest kid | respect | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=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:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): 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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