--- title: Neither is a rude word about your mum — Maddie learned that when she… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: Neither is a rude word about your mum — Maddie learned that when she hit a boy for one and still got the same punishment as any other fighter. Who acts: Neither, Maddie. 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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 (Neither, Maddie), 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:9 # text = Neither is a rude word about your mum — Maddie learned that when she hit a boy for one and still got the same punishment as any other fighter. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Neither neither PRON DT PronType=Neg 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 — - PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 learned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 punishment punishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 29 det _ _ 28 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fighter fighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Neither | a rude word | | | | about your mum | tree rules | | 2 | **learn** | past | Maddie | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **hit** | past | Maddie | a boy | | | | for one | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme | | 4 | **get** | past | Maddie *not said here* | the same punishment | | | still | as any other fighter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer punishment=Stimulus as fighter=Attribute | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-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?, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/8/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)