--- title: Lily wobbled for a second, then said: «I'm fun, but this isn't.» A «… — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics description: Lily wobbled for a second, then said: «I'm fun, but this isn't.» A «stop» doesn't need a long reason; it is reason enough. Who acts: Lily, 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. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # How to say stop, sentence 8 Lily wobbled for a second, then said: «I'm fun, but this isn't.» A «stop» doesn't need a long reason; it is reason enough. **Who acts:** Lily, stop · **What happens:** wobble, say, be, not need · **To what, where:** long reason, reason · **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 (Lily, 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:8 # text = Lily wobbled for a second, then said: «I'm fun, but this isn't.» A «stop» doesn't need a long reason; it is reason enough. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Lily lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wobbled wobble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 fun fun ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 19 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 21 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 need need VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 35 enough enough ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wobble** | past | Lily | | | | second | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily *not said here* | | | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Lily | | | | | fun *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | a stop | a long reason | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | stop | reason | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [How to say stop, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/7/) - next →: [How to say stop, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/388-how-to-say-stop/)