«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 26

Grown-ups can be wrong; you can listen to them kindly and still choose the safer way.

Who acts: Grown ups, you · What happens: be, listen, choose · To what, where: ups, safer way

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 (Grown ups, you), 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	Grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ups	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wrong	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wrong	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	cop
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 listen	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 listen	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 listen	aux
10	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wrong	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 listen	obl
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	10 listen	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 choose	cc
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 choose	advmod
16	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 listen	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 choose	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	Grown ups				wrong property	tree rules
2	listen	can	you		ups = up		kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
3	choose	infinitive	you not said here	the safer way		still		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:26.

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, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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