--- title: Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights,… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights, as if bruises were a kind of weather. Who acts: gran, boys, bruises. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/5/) [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/) / [Adults who help and adults who don't](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/) / 5 # Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 5 Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights, as if bruises were a kind of weather. **Who acts:** gran, boys, bruises · **What happens:** shrug, be · **To what, where:** boys, kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (gran, boys, bruises), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:5 # text = Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights, as if bruises were a kind of weather. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shrugged shrug VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 9 cop _ _ 9 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 bruises bruise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 advcl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shrug** | past | Kieran's gran | | | | | about the street fights | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | boys | boys | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | bruises | a kind | | | | of weather | tree rules | 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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/4/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)