The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 9
"Got battered" is UK slang for got beaten up; a "scrap" is a fight; "beef" is a quarrel; to "squash it" is to end a quarrel.
Who acts: scrap, beef · What happens: batter, be, get, beat up, squash · To what, where: UK slang, fight, quarrel, beef · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (scrap, beef), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 battered | punct |
| 2 | Got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 battered | aux:pass |
| 3 | battered | batter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slang | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 battered | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | cop |
| 6 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | compound |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | advcl |
| 10 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 got | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 beaten | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 fight | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scrap | det |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scrap | punct |
| 15 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fight | nsubj |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scrap | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fight | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fight | det |
| 19 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slang | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 quarrel | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 beef | punct |
| 22 | beef | beef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 quarrel | nsubj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 beef | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 quarrel | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 quarrel | det |
| 26 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fight | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 squash | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 squash | mark |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 squash | punct |
| 30 | squash | squash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 quarrel | parataxis |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 squash | obj |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 squash | punct |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 end | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 end | mark |
| 35 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fight | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 quarrel | det |
| 37 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 end | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter in a quote | past · passive | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP» | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | UK slang and a fight and a quarrel | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | beat up | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | a scrap | a fight and a quarrel | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | beef | a quarrel | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | squash in a quote | to-infinitive | beef | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 8 | is | present | a scrap not said here | end 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: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 ×2. 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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