Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 14

Not wanting to fight is not being soft; walking away is often the braver choice, whatever some grown-ups say.

Who acts: wanting, walking, grown ups · What happens: not want, fight, not be, walk away, be, grow · To what, where: braver choice, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» 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 (wanting, walking, grown ups), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 wanting	advmod
2	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 soft	csubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fight	mark
4	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanting	xcomp
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 soft	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 soft	advmod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 soft	cop
8	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 choice	punct
10	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 choice	csubj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 walking	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 choice	cop
13	often	often	ADV	_	16 choice	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 choice	det
15	braver	braver	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 choice	amod
16	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 soft	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 whatever	punct
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 say	obj
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 ups	det
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ups	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
22	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 say	nsubj
23	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 choice	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 soft	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	gerund				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	wanting		soft property	tree rules
4	walk away	gerund			away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	walking	the braver choice	often property	tree rules
6	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: assert	present	some grown ups	whatever		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:14.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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