--- title: «It's giving stranger,» Malachi mutters (Gen Z slang for «he's actin… — Half- and step-siblings · tree and pragmatics description: «It's giving stranger,» Malachi mutters (Gen Z slang for «he's acting like a stranger»). Who acts: school, Malachi. A sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/21/) [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/) / [Half- and step-siblings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/) / 21 # Half- and step-siblings, sentence 21 «It's giving stranger,» Malachi mutters (Gen Z slang for «he's acting like a stranger»). **Who acts:** school, Malachi · **What happens:** give, mutter, act · **To what, where:** stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Half- and step-siblings» 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 (school, Malachi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:21 # text = «It's giving stranger,» Malachi mutters (Gen Z slang for «he's acting like a stranger»). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 505-half-and-step-siblings.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 8 Malachi Malachi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 mutters mutter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 11 Gen gen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 12 Z z NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 14 for for SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 acting act VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:det 21 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** *in a quote* | present · progressive | school | stranger | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme | | 2 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | present | Malachi | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **act** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Malachi | a stranger | | | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent slang=Eventuality | 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:505-half-and-step-siblings.lesson:21`. **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 ×3, 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: [Half- and step-siblings, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/20/) - next →: [Half- and step-siblings, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/505-half-and-step-siblings/)