«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 13
But hitting back usually makes a fight bigger and longer, and hitting first is just starting a fight.
Who acts: hitting · What happens: hit back, make, hit, start · To what, where: fight
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 (hitting), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 makes | cc |
| 2 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | csubj |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 hitting | advmod |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 longer | cc |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 bigger | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 starting | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 starting | cc |
| 13 | hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 starting | csubj |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 hitting | advmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 starting | aux |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 starting | advmod |
| 17 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fight | det |
| 19 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit back | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | hitting | a fight | big, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | |||
| 3 | hit | gerund | first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | start | present · progressive | hitting | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality |
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:13.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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