--- title: Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, a… — Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation · tree and pragmatics description: Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, always hanging round the shop, up to no good». Who acts: Grandad, kids. 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 pragm --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 7 Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, always hanging round the shop, up to no good». **Who acts:** Grandad, kids · **What happens:** mutter, hang · **To what, where:** Toronto, shop · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Grandad, kids), 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:7 # text = Scene: in Toronto, Grandad mutters about «the kids from the flats, always hanging round the shop, up to no good». # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 Scene scene NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Toronto Toronto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 mutters mutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 flats flat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 always always ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 up up ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case 24 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 25 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obl _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | present | Grandad | | | Toronto | | about the kids from the flats | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about kid=Topic | | 2 | **hang** *in a quote* | gerund | the kids from the flats *not said here* | | | the shop | | up no good; always *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round shop=Destination | 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:7`. **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 ×2. **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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