--- title: Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «Th… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring. Who acts: uncle, best boxers, ones. 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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 (uncle, best boxers, ones), 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:17 # text = Jake's uncle, who boxes at a club, said the wisest thing of all: «The best boxers are the ones who never fight outside the ring. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 boxes box VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 wisest wise ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 14 amod _ _ 14 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 nmod _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 boxers boxer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:parataxis 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 28 outside outside ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **box** | present | Jake's uncle | | | a club | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jake's uncle | the wisest thing of all | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the best boxers | the ones | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **fight** *in a quote* | present | the ones | | | | | outside the ring | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:17`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Respect: how it is earned, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/16/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)