Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 17

When Callum shoved Sam over, Sam stayed down on the floor, didn't fight back, and told a teacher later: not cowardly, because it stopped the fight growing.

Who acts: Callum, Sam, hit · What happens: shove over, stay down, not fight back, tell, stop, grow · To what, where: Sam, floor · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Callum, Sam, hit), 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	3 shoved	advmod
2	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	nsubj
3	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stayed	advcl
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shoved	obj
5	over	over	ADV	_	3 shoved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shoved	punct
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 floor	det
12	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fight	punct
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fight	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fight	advmod
16	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stayed	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 fight	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stayed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 teacher	det
22	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 later	obl:unmarked
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 told	advmod
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 cowardly	punct
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 cowardly	advmod
26	cowardly	cowardly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 later	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stopped	punct
28	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 stopped	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stopped	nsubj
30	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 told	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fight	det
32	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 growing	compound
33	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stopped	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shove over	past	Callum	Sam		over property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sam=Theme
2	stay down	past	Sam		the floor	down property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
3	not fight back	past · do-support	Sam not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	Sam not said here			late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stop	past	hit				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	grow	gerund	hit not said here				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:17.

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 ×2, 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.

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