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title: Being shoved is wrong too, but a punch to the face is a much bigger… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics
description: Being shoved is wrong too, but a punch to the face is a much bigger harm than a shove. Who acts: punch. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 18

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Being shoved is wrong too, but a punch to the face is a much bigger harm than a shove.

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**Who acts:** punch · **What happens:** shove, be · **To what, where:** bigger harm

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (punch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:18
# text = Being shoved is wrong too, but a punch to the face is a much bigger harm than a shove.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	aux:pass	_	_
2	shoved	shove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	csubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shove	shove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a punch to the face | a bigger harm |  |  |  | than a shove | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:18`.

**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. **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/).

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