--- title: Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all. — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics description: Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all. Who acts: people, Teasing. 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 clause. --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 20 Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all. **Who acts:** people, Teasing · **What happens:** tease, like, stop, be · **To what, where:** people, all, friends 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 (people, Teasing), 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:20 # text = Teasing people about who they like can stop them being friends at all. # 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 Teasing tease VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 cop _ _ 11 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tease** | gerund | | people | | | | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **like** | present | people | people | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot who=Theme | | 3 | **stop** | can | Teasing | | | all | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | people | friends | | | | | 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: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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Our street: when a guess becomes a rep…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/19/) - next →: [Our street: when a guess becomes a rep…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/43-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation/)