--- title: Kieran's group told him that to «prove he was loyal» he had to throw… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran's group told him that to «prove he was loyal» he had to throw a stone at a Station Road window. Who acts: group. A sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/0/) [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/) / [Street gangs and loyalty](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/) / 0 # Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 0 Kieran's group told him that to «prove he was loyal» he had to throw a stone at a Station Road window. **Who acts:** group · **What happens:** tell, prove, be, have, throw · **To what, where:** Kieran, stone, Road window · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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 (group), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:0 # text = Kieran's group told him that to «prove he was loyal» he had to throw a stone at a Station Road window. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kieran's group | | Kieran | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **prove** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | group *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | group | | | | | loyal *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | group | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **throw** | to-infinitive | group *not said here* | a stone | | a Road window | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at window=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:everyday:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:0`. **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 ×1, 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 against theirs, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/23/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/)