--- title: Sam twisted free, ran straight to Mr Hughes on duty and told him eve… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Sam twisted free, ran straight to Mr Hughes on duty and told him everything, shaking. Who acts: Sam. 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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 1 Sam twisted free, ran straight to Mr Hughes on duty and told him everything, shaking. **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** twisted, run, tell, shake · **To what, where:** Mr, everything, Sam · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Sam), 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:1 # text = Sam twisted free, ran straight to Mr Hughes on duty and told him everything, shaking. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj 2 twisted twisted VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 3 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 straight straight ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 Hughes Hughes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 flat _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 duty duty NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twisted** | past | Sam | | | | | free *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **run** | past | Sam *not said here* | | Mr on duty | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mr=Result | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sam *not said here* | everything | Sam | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient everything=Topic | | 4 | **shake** | gerund | Sam *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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:1`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/0/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)