--- title: Sam won't climb the fence into the building site, so Jake calls him… — Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels · tree and pragmatics description: Sam won't climb the fence into the building site, so Jake calls him a wimp. Who acts: Sam, Jake. A sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/) / 5 # Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 5 Sam won't climb the fence into the building site, so Jake calls him a wimp. **Who acts:** Sam, Jake · **What happens:** not climb, call · **To what, where:** fence, building site, Sam · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (Sam, Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:5 # text = Sam won't climb the fence into the building site, so Jake calls him a wimp. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 building building NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 site site NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 wimp wimp NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj 18 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **climb** | future | Sam | the fence | | the building site | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | present | Jake | | Sam | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.lesson:5`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/4/) - next →: [Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels/)