«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 19
Hitting someone first is starting a fight, even if you are afraid they will hit you.
Who acts: Hitting, you, friends · What happens: hit, start, be · To what, where: someone, fight, you
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, you, friends), 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 | Hitting | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 starting | csubj |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Hitting | obj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Hitting | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starting | aux |
| 5 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 afraid | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 afraid | advmod |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 afraid | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 afraid | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 afraid | cop |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 starting | advcl |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hit | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hit | aux |
| 16 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afraid | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 hit | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 starting | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | someone | first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | start | present · progressive | Hitting | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hit | future | friends = friend | you | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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:19.
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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