Handling anger and everyday fears, sentence 12
If someone hits you when they are angry, even a brother or sister, tell a parent or another trusted adult; hitting is never OK.
Who acts: someone, words, you · What happens: hit, be, tell, not be · To what, where: you, parent · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Handling anger and everyday fears» of the everyday 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 (someone, words, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 hits | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 hits | nsubj |
| 3 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tell | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 hits | obj |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 angry | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 angry | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 angry | cop |
| 8 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hits | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brother | punct |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 brother | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brother | det |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hits | advcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 sister | cc |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hits | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parent | det |
| 18 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 adult | cc |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 adult | det |
| 21 | trusted | trust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 adult | amod |
| 22 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 parent | conj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 24 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 OK | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 OK | cop |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 OK | advmod |
| 27 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tell | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit a condition, not said to happen | present | someone | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | words = word | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a parent or another trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | hit | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | not is | present | ok 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, 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:291-handling-anger-and-fear.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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