--- title: Not wanting to fight is not being soft; walking away is often the br… — Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up · tree and pragmatics description: Not wanting to fight is not being soft; walking away is often the braver choice, whatever some grown-ups say. Who acts: wanting, walking, grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/19-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up/14/) [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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/19-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up/) / 14 # Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up, sentence 14 Not wanting to fight is not being soft; walking away is often the braver choice, whatever some grown-ups say. **Who acts:** wanting, walking, grown ups · **What happens:** not want, fight, not be, walk away, be, grow · **To what, where:** braver choice, whatever · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Picked on: freeze-outs, robberies and standing up» of the reflection 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 (wanting, walking, grown ups), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:14 # text = Not wanting to fight is not being soft; walking away is often the braver choice, whatever some grown-ups say. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 csubj _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 walking walk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 braver braver ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 20 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **want** | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | wanting | | | | | soft *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **walk away** | gerund | | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | walking | the braver choice | | | | often *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some grown ups | whatever | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | 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:019-picked-on-freeze-outs-robberies-and-standing-up.lesson:14`. **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, 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. 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