--- title: "Got battered" is UK slang for got beaten up; a "scrap" is a fight;… — The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape · tree and pragmatics description: "Got battered" is UK slang for got beaten up; a "scrap" is a fight; "beef" is a quarrel; to "squash it" is to end a quarrel. Who acts: scrap, beef. 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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 (scrap, beef), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:9 # text = "Got battered" is UK slang for got beaten up; a "scrap" is a fight; "beef" is a quarrel; to "squash it" is to end a quarrel. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 battered batter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 10 beaten beat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 xcomp _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 scrap scrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 beef beef NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 quarrel quarrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 squash squash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 quarrel quarrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **batter** *in a quote* | past · passive | | | | | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP» | | 2 | **is a** | present | | UK slang and a fight and a quarrel | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **get** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **beat up** | participle | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a scrap | a fight and a quarrel | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | beef | a quarrel | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **squash** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | beef | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 8 | **is** | present | a scrap *not said here* | | | | | end *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:reflection:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.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 ×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. 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