--- title: And fights between friends often start from a guess, like Ruby screa… — Fights, racism and being a bystander · tree and pragmatics description: And fights between friends often start from a guess, like Ruby screaming "You did that on purpose!" at netball when it was an accident; checking first saves a lot of fights, and even screaming rows can be mended with a real sorry. Who acts: fights, Ruby, You, netball. 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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 (fights, Ruby, You, netball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:7 # text = And fights between friends often start from a guess, like Ruby screaming "You did that on purpose!" at netball when it was an accident; checking first saves a lot of fights, and even screaming rows can be mended with a real sorry. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 between between ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 guess guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 screaming scream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:parataxis 17 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 16 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 netball netball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 advcl _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 30 checking check VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 csubj _ _ 31 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 advmod _ _ 32 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 39 even even ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 40 screaming scream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 41 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 aux:pass _ _ 44 mended mend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sorry sorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | fights between friends | | | a guess | | at netball; often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | Ruby | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **do** *in a quote* | past | You | that | | purpose | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | past | netball | a accident | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **check** | gerund | | | | | | first *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **save** | present | checking | a lot of fights | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | | 7 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **mend** | can · passive | | screaming rows | | | | with a real sorry | 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:020-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander.lesson:7`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Fights, racism and being a bystander, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/6/) - next →: [Fights, racism and being a bystander, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/20-fights-racism-and-being-a-bystander/)