--- title: Grandad said «just hit him back, lad, that's what I did in '72». — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics description: Grandad said «just hit him back, lad, that's what I did in '72». Who acts: Grandad, that. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/1/) [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/) / [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/) / 1 # «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 1 Grandad said «just hit him back, lad, that's what I did in '72». **Who acts:** Grandad, that · **What happens:** say, hit back, be, do · **To what, where:** Grandad, '72 · **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 (Grandad, that), 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:1 # text = Grandad said «just hit him back, lad, that's what I did in '72». # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grandad Grandad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hit hit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 vocative _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 parataxis _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 '72 '72 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 19 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grandad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **hit back** *in a quote* | infinitive | | Grandad | | | | lad *vocative* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **do** *in a quote* | past | Grandad | | | '72 | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:1`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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