--- title: Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys who fight get a detention, but girls who fight just get a talking-to?» The class goes silent. Who acts: Sam, boys, girls, class. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/8/) [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/) / [Speaking up is bravery too](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) / 8 # Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 8 Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys who fight get a detention, but girls who fight just get a talking-to?» The class goes silent. **Who acts:** Sam, boys, girls, class · **What happens:** ask, fight, get, go · **To what, where:** Mrs, front, detention, talking · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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, boys, girls, class), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:8 # text = Then Sam asks Mrs Okafor, in front of the whole class: «Why do boys who fight get a detention, but girls who fight just get a talking-to?» The class goes silent. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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): R5-strong ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 Okafor Okafor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:appos 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 15 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 17 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 detention detention NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 25 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 talking talking NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 31 acl:relcl _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 36 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 39 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Sam | | Mrs | front of the whole class | then | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mrs=Recipient | | 2 | **fight** *in a quote* | present | boys | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · do-support | boys | a detention | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer detention=Stimulus | | 4 | **fight** *in a quote* | present | girls | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | girls | a talking | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer talking=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** | present | the class | | | | | silent *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Speaking up is bravery too, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/7/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)