How to say stop, sentence 27
You can say stop to your own friends when they dare you to do something unkind.
Who acts: You, friends · What happens: say, stop, dare, do · To what, where: you, something · 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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 friends | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stop | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 dare | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dare | nsubj |
| 11 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 dare | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dare | xcomp |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 something | amod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stop | infinitive | to your own friends | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dare | present | friends = friend | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | friends = friend not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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:27.
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): no change. 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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