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title: little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?» Best answer? — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher… · tree and pragmatics
description: little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?» Best answer? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 391 ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 11 · ★ · «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-up…

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little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?» Best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** I, someone · **What happens:** do, shove · **To what, where:** little brother, me

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 391 ««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 the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:1
# text = little brother: «so what DO I do if someone shoves me?»
1	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	DO	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	appos	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shoves	shove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | present · do-support | I | little brother |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shove** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | someone | me |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Best answer?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:2
# text = Best answer?
1	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Keep it a secret from everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:o1:1
# text = Keep it a secret from everyone
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | everyone |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary from everyone=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hit the nearest person

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:o2:1
# text = Hit the nearest person
1	Hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | imperative | you *not said here* | the nearest person |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme person=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Shove back harder than they shoved you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:o3:1
# text = Shove back harder than they shoved you
1	Shove	shove	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	xcomp	_	_
4	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	shoved	shove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shove** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shove** | past | they | you |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Step away, then tell a grown-up you trust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher:t11:o4:1
# text = Step away, then tell a grown-up you trust
1	Step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	grown	grown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step away** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a grown up |  |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient |
| 3 | **trust** | present | you | a grown up *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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