«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 0
When the Station Road boys kept knocking Sam's bag off his shoulder, every grown-up in his life gave him a different rule.
Who acts: Road boys, grown · What happens: keep, knock, give · To what, where: bag, different rule, Sam
This is a sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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 (Road boys, grown), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 kept | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 3 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Road | compound |
| 4 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 boys | compound |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | advcl |
| 7 | knocking | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bag | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sam | case |
| 10 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knocking | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 shoulder | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 13 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knocking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 grown | det |
| 16 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 grown | compound |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grown | obl |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 rule | det |
| 25 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rule | amod |
| 26 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Road boys | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | knock | gerund | the Road boys not said here | Sam's bag | off Sam's shoulder | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bag=Patient off shoulder=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | every grown | a different rule | Sam | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rule=Theme |
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:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:0.
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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