--- title: Never comment on someone's weight; you don't know if they are ill, g… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics description: Never comment on someone's weight; you don't know if they are ill, grieving or just healthier. Who acts: you, Sunglasses. A sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/18/) [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: when a guess becomes a rep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/) / 18 # Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 18 Never comment on someone's weight; you don't know if they are ill, grieving or just healthier. **Who acts:** you, Sunglasses · **What happens:** not comment, not know, be, grieve · **To what, where:** weight This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» 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 (you, Sunglasses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:18 # text = Never comment on someone's weight; you don't know if they are ill, grieving or just healthier. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 comment comment VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 grieving grieve VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 just just ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 healthier healthy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **comment** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | someone's weight | | | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | Sunglasses | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **grieve** | gerund | Sunglasses *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **be** | | Sunglasses *not said here* | | | | | | 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:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:18`. **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): 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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