--- title: Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given bac… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given back, and saying sorry helps calm things down. Who acts: Things, saying. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Our street against theirs, sentence 23 Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given back, and saying sorry helps calm things down. **Who acts:** Things, saying · **What happens:** belong, give back, say, help, calm down · **To what, where:** Things, sorry · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Things, saying), 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:23 # text = Things that belong to someone else, like a ball, should be given back, and saying sorry helps calm things down. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obl _ _ 6 else else ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 19 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ _ 20 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | present | Things | | | | | to someone | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give back** | should · passive | | Things | | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 4 | **help** | present | saying | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **calm down** | infinitive | saying *not said here* | things | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | 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: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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Our street against theirs, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/22/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/)