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title: Grown-ups give these rules out of love and from their own childhood,… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups give these rules out of love and from their own childhood, and some are half right. Who acts: Grown ups, some. 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 pragmat
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# «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 12

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Grown-ups give these rules out of love and from their own childhood, and some are half right.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, some · **What happens:** grow, give, be · **To what, where:** rules, love

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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 (Grown ups, some), 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:12
# text = Grown-ups give these rules out of love and from their own childhood, and some are half right.
# 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	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	20	advmod	_	_
20	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | Grown ups | this rules |  | love and ups's own childhood |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | some |  |  |  |  | half, right *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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/).

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