--- title: His uncle came to watch the passing-out parade and was so proud that… — What everyone learned about fights · tree and pragmatics description: His uncle came to watch the passing-out parade and was so proud that he forgot all about «if you don't hit back, you'll be a target forever». Who acts: uncle, you. 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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 (uncle, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:9 # text = His uncle came to watch the passing-out parade and was so proud that he forgot all about «if you don't hit back, you'll be a target forever». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 395-what-everyone-learned.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 7 passing passing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 parade parade NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 18 all all ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 26 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 33 forever forever ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **come** | past | Kieran's uncle | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **watch** | to-infinitive | Kieran's uncle *not said here* | the passing out parade | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parade=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Kieran's uncle *not said here* | | | | | proud *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **forget** | past | uncle | | | | | about, all *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **hit back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | you | a target | | | | forever *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:395-what-everyone-learned.lesson:9`. **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, R7-rel-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: [What everyone learned about fights, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/8/) - next →: [What everyone learned about fights, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/395-what-everyone-learned/)