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title: Saying stop clearly works best: stand tall, look at the person, use… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying stop clearly works best: stand tall, look at the person, use a steady, loud voice. Who acts: Saying. 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 20

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Saying stop clearly works best: stand tall, look at the person, use a steady, loud voice.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, work, stand, look, use · **To what, where:** stop, steady loud voice · **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 (Saying), 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:20
# text = Saying stop clearly works best: stand tall, look at the person, use a steady, loud voice.
# 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): no change
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | stop |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stop=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | present | Saying |  |  |  |  | clearly, well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | at the person | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at person=Theme |
| 5 | **use** | infinitive |  | a steady loud voice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |

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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:20`.

**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): no change. **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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