--- title: His friends dared him to pull Lily's hair again, and he said: «Stop… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics description: His friends dared him to pull Lily's hair again, and he said: «Stop it, I'm not doing that.» They were so surprised that they stopped daring him. Who acts: friends, boy. 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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 (friends, boy), 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:17 # text = His friends dared him to pull Lily's hair again, and he said: «Stop it, I'm not doing that.» They were so surprised that they stopped daring him. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dared dare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 again again ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 24 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 27 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 31 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 34 daring dare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 xcomp _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dare** | past | boy's friends | boy | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **pull** | to-infinitive | boy's friends *not said here* | Lily's hair | | | again | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | hair | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 5 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | boy | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 6 | **is** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | surprised *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **stop** | past | friends *= friend* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **dare** | gerund | friends *= friend* *not said here* | | boy | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | 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: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, R8-pos-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, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/16/) - next →: [How to say stop, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/)