--- title: On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck h… — Walking away · tree and pragmatics description: On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». Who acts: boy. A sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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/371-walking-away/0/) [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/) / [Walking away](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/) / 0 # Walking away, sentence 0 On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** step, stick out, say, go, hit · **To what, where:** corner, chin, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Walking away» 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 (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:371-walking-away.lesson:0 # text = On the corner of Station Road a boy stepped right up to Sam, stuck his chin out and said «go on then, hit me». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 371-walking-away.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 10 right right ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod 11 up up ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 15 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 chin chin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp 23 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj 27 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **step** | past | a boy | | | the corner of Station Road | | up Sam | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on corner=Trajectory | | 2 | **stick out** | past | a boy *not said here* | boy's chin | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chin=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | | a boy *= boy* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-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:371-walking-away.lesson:0`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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: [Standing by a friend, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/30/) - next →: [Walking away, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/371-walking-away/)