How to say stop, sentence 17
His friends dared him to pull Lily's hair again, and he said: «Stop it, I'm not doing that.» They were so surprised that they stopped daring him.
Who acts: friends, boy · What happens: dare, pull, say, stop, not do, be · To what, where: boy, hair, that · 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 (friends, boy), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dared | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pull | mark |
| 6 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dared | xcomp |
| 7 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Lily | case |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pull | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 pull | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dared | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 Stop | punct |
| 16 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 Stop | punct |
| 17 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 Stop | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Stop | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 doing | nsubj |
| 21 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 doing | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 doing | advmod |
| 23 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 Stop | parataxis |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 doing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 doing | punct |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 27 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 surprised | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 surprised | cop |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 surprised | advmod |
| 30 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dared | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 stopped | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 stopped | nsubj |
| 33 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 surprised | ccomp |
| 34 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 stopped | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 daring | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | past | boy's friends | boy | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull | to-infinitive | boy's friends not said here | Lily's hair | again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | boy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stop in a quote | infinitive | hair | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not do in a quote | present · progressive | boy | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is | past | friends = friend | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | stop | past | friends = friend | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 8 | dare | gerund | friends = friend not said here | boy | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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:17.
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, R8-pos-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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