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title: «I said stop and he didn't,» she told her, worried it was telling ta… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics
description: «I said stop and he didn't,» she told her, worried it was telling tales. Who acts: Tom, stop. A sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How to say stop, sentence 10

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«I said stop and he didn't,» she told her, worried it was telling tales.

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**Who acts:** Tom, stop · **What happens:** said, stop, tell, worry · **To what, where:** Okafor, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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 (Tom, stop), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:10
# text = «I said stop and he didn't,» she told her, worried it was telling tales.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 388-how-to-say-stop.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	said	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:conj
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	worried	worry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **said** *in a quote* | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tom |  | Okafor |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **worry** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | stop | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:10`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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/).

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