--- title: Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choi… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choice in the group. Who acts: Refusing, gang. A sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday 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/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Our street against theirs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) / 20 # Our street against theirs, sentence 20 Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choice in the group. **Who acts:** Refusing, gang · **What happens:** refuse, not join, allow, be · **To what, where:** gang, bravest choice, group This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street against theirs» of the everyday 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 (Refusing, gang), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:20 # text = Refusing to join a gang is allowed, and it is often the bravest choice in the group. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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): no change 1 Refusing refuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 2 to to PART TO _ 3 mark _ _ 3 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gang gang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 allowed allow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 bravest brave ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **join** | to-infinitive | | a gang | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gang=Patient | | 3 | **allow** | present · passive | Refusing | | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING» | | 4 | **is a** | present | gang | the bravest choice | | the group | | often *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:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.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): no change. **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 against theirs, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/19/) - next →: [Our street against theirs, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/)