The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 8
Revenge usually starts another round of fighting rather than ending it; walking away is often the stronger choice.
Who acts: Revenge, walking · What happens: start, end, walk away, be · To what, where: round, stronger choice
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» of the reflection 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 (Revenge, walking), 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 | Revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 starts | advmod |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 round | det |
| 5 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fighting | case |
| 7 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 round | nmod |
| 8 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 10 ending | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 ending | mark |
| 10 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 fighting | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ending | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 choice | punct |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 choice | csubj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 walking | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 choice | cop |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 choice | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 choice | det |
| 18 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 choice | amod |
| 19 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Revenge | another round of fighting | usually property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | end | gerund | Revenge not said here | round | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | walk away | gerund | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | walking | the stronger choice | often 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:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:8.
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): 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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