--- title: Self-defence means doing only what is needed to stop being hurt righ… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Self-defence means doing only what is needed to stop being hurt right now, then getting away. Who acts: Self defence. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 23 Self-defence means doing only what is needed to stop being hurt right now, then getting away. **Who acts:** Self defence · **What happens:** mean, do, need, stop, hurt, get away · **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 (Self defence), 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:23 # text = Self-defence means doing only what is needed to stop being hurt right now, then getting away. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 ccomp _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 7 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 14 right right ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Self defence | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **need** | present · passive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: what=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | | | | | now | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **hurt** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 6 | **get away** | gerund | | | | | then | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:23`. **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 ×1, 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?, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/22/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)