«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 15
Sam told Grandad that, and Grandad, after a long sip of tea, said: «Well.
Who acts: Sam, Grandad · What happens: tell, say, sip · To what, where: Grandad, tea · 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 (Sam, Grandad), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 said | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grandad | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 7 | Grandad | Grandad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sip | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 sip | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sip | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sip | amod |
| 12 | sip | sip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Grandad | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tea | case |
| 14 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sip | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Grandad | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 19 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 16 said | discourse |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Sam | Grandad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sip | tea | nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient |
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:15.
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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