--- title: Older Station Road boys tried to recruit Jake because he was «a good… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics description: Older Station Road boys tried to recruit Jake because he was «a good fighter», calling him «little bro» and buying him chips. Who acts: Road boys, Jake. 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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 (Road boys, Jake), 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:5 # text = Older Station Road boys tried to recruit Jake because he was «a good fighter», calling him «little bro» and buying him chips. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Older Older PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 recruit recruit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 12 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fighter fighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 buying buy VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 27 chips chip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | **try** | past | Road boys | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **recruit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Road boys *not said here* | Jake | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Jake | a good fighter | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **call** *speech: assert* | gerund | Road boys *not said here* | | Jake | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 5 | **buy** | gerund | Road boys *not said here* | chips | Jake | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary chip=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/4/) - next →: [Street gangs and loyalty, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/383-street-gangs-and-loyalty/)