--- title: Freddie had been called names by Jake for a whole term; one day he s… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Freddie had been called names by Jake for a whole term; one day he snapped and hit Jake. Who acts: Jake, Freddie. 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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 15 Freddie had been called names by Jake for a whole term; one day he snapped and hit Jake. **Who acts:** Jake, Freddie · **What happens:** call, snap, hit · **To what, where:** Freddie, Jake · **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 (Jake, Freddie), 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:15 # text = Freddie had been called names by Jake for a whole term; one day he snapped and hit Jake. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Freddie Freddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl:agent _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 snapped snap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | Jake | Freddie | | | | for a whole term | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent subject=Theme for term=Beneficiary | | 2 | **snap** | past | Freddie | | | | day | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **hit** | past | Freddie *not said here* | Jake | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme jake=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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:15`. **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 ×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?, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/14/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)