--- title: A stammer is when words get stuck or repeat when speaking; letting t… — Left out: the party, the new school, the third w… · tree and pragmatics description: A stammer is when words get stuck or repeat when speaking; letting the person finish is the kind thing to do, and speech therapists can help. Who acts: stammer, person, letting, speech therapists. 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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 (stammer, person, letting, speech therapists), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.lesson:14 # text = A stammer is when words get stuck or repeat when speaking; letting the person finish is the kind thing to do, and speech therapists can help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stammer stammer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 6 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 7 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 repeat repeat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 13 letting let VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 therapists therapist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present | a stammer *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | a stammer | | | | | stuck *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **repeat** | present | a stammer *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a stammer *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **finish** | infinitive | the person | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **is a** | present | letting | the kind thing | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** | to-infinitive | a stammer *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **help** | can | speech therapists | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | 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:021-left-out-the-party-the-new-school-the-third-wheel.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): 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. 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