--- title: A joke label like «midlife crisis» is not a fact about someone's min… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: A joke label like «midlife crisis» is not a fact about someone's mind; admiring a car is fine, diagnosing a person is unkind. Who acts: joke label, admiring, someone. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Our street: feuds, newcomers and stori…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/) / 11 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 11 A joke label like «midlife crisis» is not a fact about someone's mind; admiring a car is fine, diagnosing a person is unkind. **Who acts:** joke label, admiring, someone · **What happens:** not be, admire, be, diagnose, mind · **To what, where:** fact, car, person This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life 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 (joke label, admiring, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:11 # text = A joke label like «midlife crisis» is not a fact about someone's mind; admiring a car is fine, diagnosing a person is unkind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 label label NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 midlife midlife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 crisis crisis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 parataxis _ _ 13 about about ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 admiring admire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 diagnosing diagnose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a joke label like « midlife crisis | a fact | | | | about someone's mind | tree rules | | 2 | **admire** | gerund | | a car | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | present | admiring | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **diagnose** | gerund | | a person | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | | | unkind *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **mind** | | someone | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:11`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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