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What the grown-ups say, sentence 11 Lily's dad said «you're a girl, you should never hit» — as if boys should — and Lily's gran said «ignore them and they'll stop», but the ponytail tugging did not stop, because ignoring only works when the other person is bored, not when they are enjoying it. **Who acts:** dad, you, gran, boys, ponytail tugging, ignoring · **What happens:** say, be, not hit, ignore, stop, not stop · **To what, where:** girl, boys, person · **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 (dad, you, gran, boys), 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:11 # text = Lily's dad said «you're a girl, you should never hit» — as if boys should — and Lily's gran said «ignore them and they'll stop», but the ponytail tugging did not stop, because ignoring only works when the other person is bored, not when they are enjoying it. # 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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 — - PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 21 — - PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 28 ignore ignore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 38 ponytail ponytail NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:nsubj 39 tugging tug NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 40 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 44 because because SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 45 ignoring ignore VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 csubj _ _ 46 only only ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 48 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 53 advmod _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 cop _ _ 53 bored bored ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 advcl _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 59 advmod _ _ 56 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 59 advmod _ _ 57 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 58 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 59 enjoying enjoy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 53 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=53:conj 60 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 obj _ _ 61 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | Lily's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | a girl | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **hit** *in a quote* | should | you | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lily's gran | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **ignore** *in a quote* | infinitive | | boys *= boy* | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | future | boys *= boy* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **stop** | past · do-support | the ponytail tugging | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 8 | **ignore** | gerund | | | | | | | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **work** | present | ignoring | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **is** | present | the other person | | | | | bored *property* | tree rules | | 11 | **not** **enjoy** | present · progressive | boys *= boy* | person | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | 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:11`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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