--- title: A look, a rude word or an insult is not a physical attack, so hittin… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: A look, a rude word or an insult is not a physical attack, so hitting for it is not self-defence. Who acts: look, hitting. 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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Self-defence or just stupid?, sentence 26 A look, a rude word or an insult is not a physical attack, so hitting for it is not self-defence. **Who acts:** look, hitting · **What happens:** not be, hit · **To what, where:** physical attack, self defence 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 (look, hitting), 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:26 # text = A look, a rude word or an insult is not a physical attack, so hitting for it is not self-defence. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 physical physical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 attack attack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 17 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 22 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 defence defence NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a look | a physical attack | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hit** | gerund | | | | | | for word | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | hitting | self defence | | | | | tree rules | 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:26`. **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?, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/25/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)