«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 22
If the first adult does nothing, it is right to tell them again or tell another adult.
Who acts: first adult · What happens: do, be, tell · To what, where: nothing, detention, adult · 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 adult), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 does | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 does | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | advcl |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 does | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 does | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 right | expl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 right | cop |
| 10 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tell | mark |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 right | csubj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 tell | advmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 tell | conj |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 adult | det |
| 18 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 right | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | the first adult | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | detention | again | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | another adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:22.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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