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title: Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned resp… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect. Who acts: Kieran, hardest kid. A sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respect: how it is earned, sentence 12

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Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, hardest kid · **What happens:** think, be, earn · **To what, where:** hardest kid, street, respect · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (Kieran, hardest kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:12
# text = Kieran still thought being the hardest kid on the street earned respect.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): no change
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	earned	earn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Kieran |  |  |  | still |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | gerund |  | the hardest kid |  | the street |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **earn** | past | the hardest kid | respect |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme |

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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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:12`.

**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): no change. **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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