Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 9

Neither is a rude word about your mum — Maddie learned that when she hit a boy for one and still got the same punishment as any other fighter.

Who acts: Neither, Maddie · What happens: be, learn, hit, get · To what, where: rude word, boy, same punishment

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 (Neither, Maddie), 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	Neither	neither	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 word	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 word	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 word	amod
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 learned	parataxis
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 word	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 word	punct
10	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 learned	nsubj
11	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 hit	mark
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 hit	advmod
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 learned	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 boy	det
17	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hit	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 hit	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 got	cc
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 got	advmod
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hit	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 punishment	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 punishment	amod
25	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 fighter	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 fighter	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fighter	amod
29	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 learned	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Neither	a rude word		about your mum	tree rules
2	learn	past	Maddie				vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hit	past	Maddie	a boy		for one	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme
4	get	past	Maddie not said here	the same punishment	still	as any other fighter	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus as fighter=Attribute

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:9.

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): R6-punct-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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