«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 9
After Connor punched Maddie's nose, her dad, still angry, said «next time, you hit him first».
Who acts: Connor, you · What happens: punch, say, hit · To what, where: nose, dad · 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 (Connor, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 punched | mark |
| 2 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 punched | nsubj |
| 3 | punched | punch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 4 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 nose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Maddie | case |
| 6 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 punched | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dad | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nose | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 angry | punct |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 angry | advmod |
| 12 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dad | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 punched | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hit | obj |
| 22 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 hit | advmod |
| 23 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 hit | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punch | past | Connor | Maddie's nose and Connor's dad | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hit in a quote | present | you | dad | time | first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-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:9.
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 ×1, 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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