--- title: Hitting back after the danger is over is revenge, and schools and th… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Hitting back after the danger is over is revenge, and schools and the law treat it as fighting. Who acts: danger, Hitting, schools. 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/25/) [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/) / 25 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 25 Hitting back after the danger is over is revenge, and schools and the law treat it as fighting. **Who acts:** danger, Hitting, schools · **What happens:** hit back, be, treat, fight · **To what, where:** revenge, danger 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 (danger, Hitting, schools), 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:25 # text = Hitting back after the danger is over is revenge, and schools and the law treat it as fighting. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 after after SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 over over ADV RB _ 1 advcl _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 treat treat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **hit back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the danger | | | | | over *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | Hitting | revenge | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **treat** | present | schools and the law | danger | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **fight** | gerund | schools and the law *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «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:25`. **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): R8-pos-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?, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/24/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)