«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 7

Then Mr Pryce, the head teacher, told Jake: «when you want to hit, come and tell me instead.» The first time Jake did it, he stood in the office doorway with his fists still clenched, and Mr Pryce sorted the problem before lunch.

Who acts: Mr, Jake · What happens: tell, want, hit, come, do, stand · To what, where: Jake, Mr, target, office doorway, fists, problem · 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 (Mr, Jake), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 told	advmod
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
3	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	flat
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 teacher	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teacher	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teacher	compound
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mr	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mr	punct
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Jake	jake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 want	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
15	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 hit	mark
17	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tell	cc
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	instead	instead	ADV	_	21 tell	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
29	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 did	nsubj
30	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 time	acl:relcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 did	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 doorway	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 doorway	det
37	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 doorway	compound
38	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obl
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 fists	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 fists	nmod:poss
41	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 doorway	nmod
42	still	still	ADV	_	43 clenched	advmod
43	clenched	clench	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 fists	acl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sorted	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sorted	cc
46	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 sorted	nsubj
47	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Mr	flat
48	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stood	conj
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 problem	det
50	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sorted	obj
51	before	before	ADP	_	52 lunch	case
52	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 sorted	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mr		Jake		then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient clause=Topic
2	want in a quote	present	Jake						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	hit not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Jake not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come in a quote	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Mr			instead property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	do	past	Jake	target					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	stand	past	Jake			the office doorway with Jake's fists	time		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location
8	clench	participle		Jake's fists not said here			still		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	sort	past	Mr	the problem			before lunch		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=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:7.

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): R5-strong ×3, R8-pos-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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