--- title: Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering… — Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind. Who acts: Liking, sneering. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Our street: feuds, newcomers and stories that grow, sentence 17 Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it is unkind. **Who acts:** Liking, sneering · **What happens:** like, dislike, be, sneer · **To what, where:** purple door, opinion, news 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 (Liking, sneering), 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:17 # text = Liking or disliking a purple door is an opinion, not news; sneering at people for it 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Liking like VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 disliking dislike VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 purple purple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 sneering sneer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 unkind unkind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **dislike** | gerund | | a purple door | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer door=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | Liking | a opinion and news | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sneer** | gerund | | news | | | | at people | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | sneering | | | | | unkind *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:042-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow.lesson:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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