«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 20
At school, a child who hits, even to hit back, can get a detention or be sent home.
Who acts: child · What happens: hit, hit back, get, send · To what, where: detention, school
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 (child), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 school | case |
| 2 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 school | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hits | nsubj |
| 7 | hits | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 child | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 hit | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hit | mark |
| 11 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hits | advcl |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 hit | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hit | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 detention | det |
| 17 | detention | detention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 sent | cc |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sent | aux:pass |
| 20 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 get | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 sent | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | present | a child | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hit back | to-infinitive | a child not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | can | a child | a detention | school | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent detention=Theme at school=Asset | |||
| 4 | send | infinitive · passive | a child not said here | home property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
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:20.
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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