--- title: Someone who is called names for months may snap and hit out, and it… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Someone who is called names for months may snap and hit out, and it is still wrong, but the name-calling was wrong first. Who acts: cowardice, name calling. 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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 (cowardice, name calling), 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:31 # text = Someone who is called names for months may snap and hit out, and it is still wrong, but the name-calling was wrong first. # 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 Someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 snap snap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:expl 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ _ 24 calling calling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 27 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | names | | | month | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **snap** | may · passive | | Someone | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **hit out** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | cowardice | | | | still | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the name calling | | | | | first, wrong *property* | 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:31`. **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?, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/30/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)