--- title: But hitting back usually makes a fight bigger and longer, and hittin… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics description: But hitting back usually makes a fight bigger and longer, and hitting first is just starting a fight. Who acts: hitting. A sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? 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What the grown-ups say, sentence 13 But hitting back usually makes a fight bigger and longer, and hitting first is just starting a fight. **Who acts:** hitting · **What happens:** hit back, make, hit, start · **To what, where:** fight 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 (hitting), 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:13 # text = But hitting back usually makes a fight bigger and longer, and hitting first is just starting a fight. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj 3 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 usually usually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 hitting hit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nsubj 14 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 advmod _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 starting start VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | hitting | a fight | | | | big, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | | 3 | **hit** | gerund | | | | | | first *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **start** | present · progressive | hitting | a fight | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | 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:13`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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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