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title: She tried again, standing tall, looking herself in the eye, saying i… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics
description: She tried again, standing tall, looking herself in the eye, saying it slowly and loudly. Who acts: She. 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 2

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She tried again, standing tall, looking herself in the eye, saying it slowly and loudly.

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**Who acts:** She · **What happens:** try, stand, look, say · **To what, where:** herself, eye · **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 (She), 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:2
# text = She tried again, standing tall, looking herself in the eye, saying it slowly and loudly.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:xcomp
6	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	16	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **try** | past | She |  |  |  | again |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | She *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | She *not said here* | herself *= she* |  | the eye |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme herself=Attribute |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | She *not said here* | eye |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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