Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 30
Staying down and not fighting back when shoved is not cowardice; it can stop a fight getting bigger.
Who acts: Staying, cowardice, fight · What happens: stay down, not fight back, shove, not be, stop, get · To what, where: cowardice, fight
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 (Staying, cowardice, fight), 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 | Staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cowardice | csubj |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Staying | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fighting | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 5 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Staying | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 fighting | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 shoved | mark |
| 8 | shoved | shove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fighting | advcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cowardice | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 cowardice | advmod |
| 11 | cowardice | cowardice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 stop | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stop | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stop | aux |
| 15 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cowardice | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fight | det |
| 17 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stop | obj |
| 18 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fight | acl |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 getting | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cowardice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay down | gerund | down property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not fight back | gerund | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | shove | participle | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not is a | present | Staying | cowardice | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop | can | cowardice | a fight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | get | gerund | a fight not said here | big property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:30.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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