--- title: When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics description: When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and his friends said it with him: «Stop.» The boy stopped. Who acts: boy, Sam, friends. 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 clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/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/) / [How to say stop](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/) / 13 # How to say stop, sentence 13 When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and his friends said it with him: «Stop.» The boy stopped. **Who acts:** boy, Sam, friends · **What happens:** flick, say, stop · **To what, where:** ear, shaky voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (boy, Sam, friends), 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:13 # text = When a boy flicked Sam's ear, Sam said «stop» in a shaky voice, and his friends said it with him: «Stop.» The boy stopped. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 flicked flick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ _ 12 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 shaky shaky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:obl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 26 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:parataxis 29 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 31 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flick** | past | a boy | Sam's ear | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sam | | | a shaky voice | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy's friends | ear | | | | with boy | tree rules | | 5 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **stop** | past | the boy | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:388-how-to-say-stop.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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: [How to say stop, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/12/) - next →: [How to say stop, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/)