--- title: But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and lau… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and laughed at him when he left. Who acts: people, kid. A sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/13/) [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/) / [Respect: how it is earned](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/) / 13 # Respect: how it is earned, sentence 13 But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and laughed at him when he left. **Who acts:** people, kid · **What happens:** do, say, stand, laugh, leave · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Respect: how it is earned» 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 (people, kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:13 # text = But people only did what he said when he was standing there, and laughed at him when he left. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 385-respect-how-it-is-earned.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): no change 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 12 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 when when SCONJ WRB _ 20 mark _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | people | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | kid | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stand** | past · progressive | kid | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **laugh** | past | people *not said here* | | | | | at kid | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **leave** | past | kid | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:385-respect-how-it-is-earned.lesson:13`. **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): no change. **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: [Respect: how it is earned, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/12/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)