--- title: Sam, who hates talking in front of people, spoke up in assembly abou… — Respect: how it is earned · tree and pragmatics description: Sam, who hates talking in front of people, spoke up in assembly about the litter in the park, and his voice shook the whole time — afterwards the class looked at him differently. Who acts: Sam, voice, class. 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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 (Sam, voice, class), 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:8 # text = Sam, who hates talking in front of people, spoke up in assembly about the litter in the park, and his voice shook the whole time — afterwards the class looked at him differently. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hates hate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 5 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 assembly assembly NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 litter litter NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 29 — - PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=25:conj 34 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 36 differently differently ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **hate** | present | Sam | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **talk** *not said to happen* | gerund | Sam *not said here* | | | front of people | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | Sam | | | assembly | | about the litter in the park | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about litter=Topic | | 4 | **shake** | past | Sam's voice | | | | time | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **look** | past | the class | | | | | at Sam; afterwards, differently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=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:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/7/) - next →: [Respect: how it is earned, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/385-respect-how-it-is-earned/)