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title: Leaving a group can feel scary, but trusted adults — parents, teache… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaving a group can feel scary, but trusted adults — parents, teachers, youth workers — can help. Who acts: Leaving, trusted adults. 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.
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# Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 22

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Leaving a group can feel scary, but trusted adults — parents, teachers, youth workers — can help.

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**Who acts:** Leaving, trusted adults · **What happens:** leave, feel, trust, help · **To what, where:** group

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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 (Leaving, trusted adults), 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:22
# text = Leaving a group can feel scary, but trusted adults — parents, teachers, youth workers — can help.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
18	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund |  | a group |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | can | Leaving |  |  |  |  | scary *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **help** | can | trusted adults |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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:22`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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