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title: A group that makes you smash windows and calls your mates traitors i… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics
description: A group that makes you smash windows and calls your mates traitors isn't loyal to you — it just uses you.» Real loyalty means sticking by people when they need you and being honest with them, not doing harm because a group demands it. Who acts: group, you, mate, Real loyalty. A sentence of the lesso
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# Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 14

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A group that makes you smash windows and calls your mates traitors isn't loyal to you — it just uses you.» Real loyalty means sticking by people when they need you and being honest with them, not doing harm because a group demands it.

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**Who acts:** group, you, mate, Real loyalty, people · **What happens:** make, smash, call, not be, use, mean · **To what, where:** windows, mates, you, harm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you, mate, Real loyalty), 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:14
# text = A group that makes you smash windows and calls your mates traitors isn't loyal to you — it just uses you.» Real loyalty means sticking by people when they need you and being honest with them, not doing harm because a group demands it.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smash	smash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
7	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
25	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
28	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	ccomp	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
31	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	cop	_	_
37	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	conj	_	_
43	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	demands	demand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a group |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **smash** | infinitive | you | windows |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present | a group *not said here* | your mates |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | a group |  | you |  |  | loyal *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | present | mate | you |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 6 | **mean** *in a quote* | present | Real loyalty |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **stick** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by people | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by people=Destination |
| 8 | **need** *in a quote* | present | people | you |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
| 9 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with people; honest *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | gerund |  | harm |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
| 11 | **demand** *speech: request* *in a quote* | present | a group | harm |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Precondition |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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/).

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