--- title: An older boy grabbed Sam's arm by the lockers and squeezed hard, and… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: An older boy grabbed Sam's arm by the lockers and squeezed hard, and wouldn't let go. Who acts: older boy. A sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/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/) / [Self-defence or just stupid?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/) / 0 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 0 An older boy grabbed Sam's arm by the lockers and squeezed hard, and wouldn't let go. **Who acts:** older boy · **What happens:** grab, squeeze, not let, go · **To what, where:** arm This is a sentence of the lesson «Self-defence or just stupid?» 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 (older boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:0 # text = An older boy grabbed Sam's arm by the lockers and squeezed hard, and wouldn't let go. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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 ×2 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 amod _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grabbed grab VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 lockers locker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 12 squeezed squeeze VERB VBD Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 16 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | a older boy | Sam's arm | | | | by the lockers | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **squeeze** | past | a older boy *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **let** | would | a older boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | a older boy *not said here* | | | | | | 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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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): R1-cc-next ×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: [What fights cost at home, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/376-what-fights-cost-at-home/26/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)