--- title: A crowd watching a fight makes it harder for the fighters to stop, b… — Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and the ones wh… · tree and pragmatics description: A crowd watching a fight makes it harder for the fighters to stop, because nobody wants to lose face. Who acts: crowd, fighters, nobody. 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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 (crowd, fighters, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:393-bystanders.lesson:19 # text = A crowd watching a fight makes it harder for the fighters to stop, because nobody wants to lose face. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 393-bystanders.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): R5-strong ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 8 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 xcomp _ _ 9 for for SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 fighters fighter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wants want VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **watch** | gerund | a crowd *not said here* | a fight | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | a crowd | | | | | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **stop** | to-infinitive | the fighters | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **want** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **lose** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | face | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=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:393-bystanders.lesson:19`. **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): R5-strong ×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: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/18/) - next →: [Bystanders: the crowd, the phone and t…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/)