«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 4

Jake's dad told him «stand up for yourself with your fists», and Kieran's uncle said «if you don't hit back you'll be a target forever».

Who acts: dad, uncle, you · What happens: tell, stand up, say, not hit back, be · To what, where: target · 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 (dad, uncle, 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	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Jake	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stand	nsubj
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
7	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stand	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 yourself	case
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 stand	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 fists	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fists	nmod:poss
13	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stand	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 stand	punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
17	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 uncle	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Kieran	case
19	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 hit	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 hit	nsubj
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hit	aux
25	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 hit	advmod
26	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 target	advcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 hit	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 target	nsubj
29	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 target	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 target	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 target	det
32	target	target	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	ccomp
33	forever	forever	ADV	_	26 hit	advmod
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jake's dad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stand up in a quote	infinitive	dad		for yourself; with your fists	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Kieran's uncle			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not hit back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · do-support	you		forever property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a in a quote	future	you	a target		tree rules

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:4.

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): R6-punct-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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