--- title: A gang name can make someone feel important, but it does not make th… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics description: A gang name can make someone feel important, but it does not make them safer or more respected by people who matter. Who acts: gang name, someone, name, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gang name, someone, name, people), 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:24 # text = A gang name can make someone feel important, but it does not make them safer or more respected by people who matter. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 gang gang NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 important important ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 safer safe ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 xcomp _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 18 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp 19 respected respected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 matter matter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | can | a gang name | someone | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **feel** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | important *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | name | adults *= adult* | | | | safe *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | | 4 | **matter** | present | people | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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:24`. **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 ×2, 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, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/23/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/)