--- title: Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said som… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics description: Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said something nasty about his mum, who is in hospital. Who acts: Jake, boy, mum. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Speaking up is bravery too](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/) / 14 # Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 14 Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said something nasty about his mum, who is in hospital. **Who acts:** Jake, boy, mum · **What happens:** tell, hit, say, be · **To what, where:** real reason, head, someone, something, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:14 # text = Jake tells the head the real reason he hit someone: the boy said something nasty about his mum, who is in hospital. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Jake jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ _ 16 nasty nasty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mum mum NOUN JJ Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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* | present | Jake | the real reason | the head | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent head=Recipient reason=Topic | | 2 | **hit** | past | Jake | someone | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Co-Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy | something | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | Jake's mum | | | hospital | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:14`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Speaking up is bravery too, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/13/) - next →: [Speaking up is bravery too, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too/)