--- title: Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics description: Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask you to get hurt or hurt others. Who acts: Refusing, true friend. 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/19/) [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/) / 19 # Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 19 Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask you to get hurt or hurt others. **Who acts:** Refusing, true friend · **What happens:** refuse, not join, not be, not ask, get, hurt · **To what, where:** fight, betrayal, you, others 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 (Refusing, true friend), 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:19 # text = Refusing to join a fight is not betrayal; a true friend does not ask you to get hurt or hurt others. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Refusing refuse VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 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 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 betrayal betrayal NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=19:cc 21 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 fight | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Patient | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Refusing | betrayal | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present · do-support | a true friend | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a true friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **hurt** | participle | a true friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **hurt** | infinitive | a true friend *not said here* | others | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:19`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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: [Street gangs and loyalty, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/18/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/)