--- title: Some grown-ups give money to homeless people, some buy food, and som… — Bad news, protests and helping others · tree and pragmatics description: Some grown-ups give money to homeless people, some buy food, and some give to homeless charities; none of these is wrong. Who acts: grown ups, some, none. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grown ups, some, none), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson:20 # text = Some grown-ups give money to homeless people, some buy food, and some give to homeless charities; none of these is wrong. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 ups grown-up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 6 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 homeless homeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 12 nsubj _ _ 12 buy buy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 17 nsubj _ _ 17 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 homeless homeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 charities charity NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 22 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 22 nmod _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | present | some grown ups | money | homeless people | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to people=Recipient | | 3 | **buy** | present | some | food | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | | 4 | **give** | present | some | | homeless charities | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to charity=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | present | none | | | | | wrong *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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:032-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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