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title: Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft. — Walking away · tree and pragmatics
description: Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft. Who acts: Walking. 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.
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# Walking away, sentence 30

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Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft.

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**Who acts:** Walking · **What happens:** walk away, be, not be · **To what, where:** someone

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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 (Walking), 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:30
# text = Walking away from someone bigger and stronger is smart, not soft.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk away** | gerund |  |  |  | someone |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from someone=Source |
| 2 | **is** | present | Walking |  |  |  |  | smart *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **be** |  | Walking *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:30`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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