--- title: When Callum shoved Sam over, Sam stayed down on the floor, didn't fi… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: When Callum shoved Sam over, Sam stayed down on the floor, didn't fight back, and told a teacher later: not cowardly, because it stopped the fight growing. Who acts: Callum, Sam, hit. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Callum, Sam, hit), 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:17 # text = When Callum shoved Sam over, Sam stayed down on the floor, didn't fight back, and told a teacher later: not cowardly, because it stopped the fight growing. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 Callum Callum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shoved shove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 over over ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 down down ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 cowardly cowardly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advcl 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:det 32 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 34 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shove over** | past | Callum | Sam | | | | over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sam=Theme | | 2 | **stay down** | past | Sam | | | the floor | | down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | | 3 | **not** **fight back** | past · do-support | Sam *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sam *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stop** | past | hit | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **grow** | gerund | hit *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:17`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/16/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)