«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 14

Telling a trusted adult — and telling again, or another adult, if the first one does nothing — is the rule that works best, for boys and girls alike.

Who acts: first one, rule · What happens: tell, do, be, work · To what, where: trusted adult, adult, nothing, rule · 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 (first one, rule), 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	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 rule	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 adult	det
3	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 adult	amod
4	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 telling	cc
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Telling	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 telling	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 adult	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 adult	cc
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 does	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 does	nsubj
18	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	advcl
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 does	obj
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rule	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rule	det
23	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 works	nsubj
25	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rule	acl:relcl
26	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	25 works	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 boys	case
29	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 girls	cc
31	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 boys	conj
32	alike	alike	ADV	_	1 Telling	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Telling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		for boys and girls; alike property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	gerund		another adult		again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do a condition, not said to happen	present	the first one	nothing				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
4	is a	present		the rule				tree rules
5	work	present	the rule				well property	vn employment-95.3 «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: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): 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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