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What the grown-ups say, sentence 0 When the Station Road boys kept knocking Sam's bag off his shoulder, every grown-up in his life gave him a different rule. **Who acts:** Road boys, grown · **What happens:** keep, knock, give · **To what, where:** bag, different rule, Sam 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 (Road boys, grown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:0 # text = When the Station Road boys kept knocking Sam's bag off his shoulder, every grown-up in his life gave him a different rule. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 Station Station PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Road Road PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 7 knocking knock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 xcomp _ _ 8 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 shoulder shoulder NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | the Road boys | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **knock** | gerund | the Road boys *not said here* | Sam's bag | | | | off Sam's shoulder | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bag=Patient off shoulder=Co-Patient | | 3 | **give** | past | every grown | a different rule | Sam | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rule=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](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. 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