Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 31
Someone who is called names for months may snap and hit out, and it is still wrong, but the name-calling was wrong first.
Who acts: cowardice, name calling · What happens: call, snap, hit out, be · To what, where: names, 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 (cowardice, name calling), 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 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 snap | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Someone | acl:relcl |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | obl |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 snap | aux |
| 9 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hit | cc |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 snap | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hit | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrong | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wrong | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 wrong | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wrong | cop |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 wrong | advmod |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snap | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 wrong | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 wrong | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 calling | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 calling | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 name | punct |
| 24 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wrong | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 wrong | cop |
| 26 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 snap | conj |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 wrong | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 snap | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | names | month | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | snap | may · passive | Someone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hit out | infinitive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | cowardice | still | wrong property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | the name calling | first, wrong property | tree rules |
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:31.
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 ×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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