«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 1
Grandad said «just hit him back, lad, that's what I did in '72».
Who acts: Grandad, that · What happens: say, hit back, be, do · To what, where: Grandad, '72 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Grandad, that), 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 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 hit | advmod |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 hit | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lad | punct |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 said | parataxis |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 '72 | case |
| 17 | '72 | '72 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 did | obl |
| 18 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hit back in a quote | infinitive | Grandad | lad vocative | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | past | Grandad | '72 | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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, 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:1.
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): 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.
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