--- title: Staying down and not fighting back when shoved is not cowardice; it… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Staying down and not fighting back when shoved is not cowardice; it can stop a fight getting bigger. Who acts: Staying, cowardice, fight. 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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 (Staying, cowardice, fight), 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:30 # text = Staying down and not fighting back when shoved is not cowardice; it can stop a fight getting bigger. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Staying stay VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nsubj 2 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 8 shoved shove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advcl 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 cowardice cowardice NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 acl _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 xcomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay down** | gerund | | | | | | down *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **not** **fight back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **shove** | participle | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **is a** | present | Staying | cowardice | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** | can | cowardice | a fight | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality fight=Eventuality | | 6 | **get** | gerund | a fight *not said here* | | | | | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:30`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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?, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/29/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)