Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 27
Saying «stop» loudly so others hear is often the quickest way to make someone stop.
Who acts: others, Saying, someone · What happens: say, stop, hear, be, make · To what, where: quickest way, someone · 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 (others, Saying, someone), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 way | csubj |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 3 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 stop | punct |
| 5 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 stop | advmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 hear | advmod |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hear | nsubj |
| 8 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stop | advcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 way | cop |
| 10 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 way | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 12 | quickest | quick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 way | amod |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 way | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | stop in a quote | infinitive | loudly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hear | present | others | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Saying | the quickest way | often property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | someone | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stop | infinitive | someone not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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, 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:27.
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.
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