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title: Sam was not even fighting, just watching, and a flying elbow gave hi… — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam was not even fighting, just watching, and a flying elbow gave him a fat lip for his cousin's wedding photos. Who acts: Sam, flying elbow. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 22

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Sam was not even fighting, just watching, and a flying elbow gave him a fat lip for his cousin's wedding photos.

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**Who acts:** Sam, flying elbow · **What happens:** not fight, watch, fly, give · **To what, where:** fat lip, Sam

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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, flying elbow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:22
# text = Sam was not even fighting, just watching, and a flying elbow gave him a fat lip for his cousin's wedding photos.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.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 ×1
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fight** | past · progressive | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | Sam *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | a flying elbow | a fat lip | Sam |  |  | for Sam's cousin's wedding photos | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient lip=Theme for photo=Asset |

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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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:22`.

**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 ×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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