--- title: Strangers' private lives are their business: «snogging» is British s… — Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing… · tree and pragmatics description: Strangers' private lives are their business: «snogging» is British slang for kissing, and «I'm done with him» means someone is ending a relationship. Who acts: Strangers, snogging, Using, someone. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Strangers, snogging, Using, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:23 # text = Strangers' private lives are their business: «snogging» is British slang for kissing, and «I'm done with him» means someone is ending a relationship. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 225-public-transport-and-borrowing.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Strangers stranger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 snogging snog NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 kissing kiss VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 done done ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 ending end VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 relationship relationship NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Strangers and private lives | lives's business | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | snogging | British slang | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kiss** | gerund | | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Using | | | | | with push; done *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | snogging *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **end** | present · progressive | someone | a relationship | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector relationship=Eventuality | 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:everyday:225-public-transport-and-borrowing.lesson:23`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Good manners on buses and trains, and…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/22/) - next →: [Good manners on buses and trains, and…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/225-public-transport-and-borrowing/)