How to say stop, sentence 13

When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and his friends said it with him: «Stop.» The boy stopped.

Who acts: boy, Sam, friends · What happens: flick, say, stop · To what, where: ear, shaky voice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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 (boy, Sam, friends), 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	SCONJ	_	4 flicked	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flicked	nsubj
4	flicked	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ear	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Sam	case
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flicked	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flicked	punct
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
12	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 stop	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 voice	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
16	shaky	shaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 voice	amod
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friends	nmod:poss
21	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
27	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 Stop	punct
28	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 Stop	punct
30	»	»	PUNCT	_	28 Stop	punct
31	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 boy	det
32	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stopped	nsubj
33	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	flick	past	a boy	Sam's ear			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Sam		a shaky voice		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	stop in a quote	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	boy's friends	ear		with boy	tree rules
5	stop in a quote	infinitive					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	stop	past	the boy				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:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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