Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 11

When Kieran got kicked and then chased the Station Road boy down the street to kick him back, it stopped being defence and became revenge.

Who acts: defence · What happens: kick, chase, kick back, stop, be, become · To what, where: Kieran, Road boy, street, boy, defence, revenge

This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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 (defence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 kicked	advmod
2	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kicked	nsubj
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	aux:pass
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 stopped	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chased	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 chased	advmod
7	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kicked	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
9	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Road	compound
10	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 boy	compound
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obj
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 street	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 street	det
14	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 kick	mark
16	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chased	advcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kick	obj
18	back	back	ADV	_	16 kick	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kicked	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 stopped	nsubj
21	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 defence	cop
23	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stopped	xcomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stopped	conj
26	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	kick	past · passive		Kieran			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient
2	chase	past		the Road boy	the street	then	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent boy=Theme down street=Trajectory
3	kick back	to-infinitive		boy			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	stop	past	defence				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	is a	gerund	defence not said here	defence			tree rules
6	become	past	defence not said here	revenge			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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, 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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:11.

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. 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.

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