«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 5

Jake tried it and got a black eye, a detention and a letter home — and the boy he hit came back the next week with his big brother.

Who acts: Jake, boy · What happens: try, get, hit, come back · To what, where: target, black eye, boy

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 (Jake, boy), 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	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eye	det
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eye	amod
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 detention	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 detention	det
11	detention	detention	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eye	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 home	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 home	det
14	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 home	compound
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 detention	conj
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hit	nsubj
21	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 boy	acl:relcl
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 week	det
25	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 week	amod
26	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl:unmarked
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 brother	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brother	amod
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	Jake	target			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	get	past	Jake not said here	a black eye and a detention and a letter home			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus
3	hit	past	Jake	the boy not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme
4	come back	past	the boy		week	with Jake's big brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:5.

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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