--- title: Telling a trusted adult — and telling again, or another adult, if th… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a trusted adult — and telling again, or another adult, if the first one does nothing — is the rule that works best, for boys and girls alike. Who acts: first one, rule. A sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? 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What the grown-ups say, sentence 14 Telling a trusted adult — and telling again, or another adult, if the first one does nothing — is the rule that works best, for boys and girls alike. **Who acts:** first one, rule · **What happens:** tell, do, be, work · **To what, where:** trusted adult, adult, nothing, rule · **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 (first one, rule), 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:14 # text = Telling a trusted adult — and telling again, or another adult, if the first one does nothing — is the rule that works best, for boys and girls alike. # 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 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 nsubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 trusted trust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 — - PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 12 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 — - PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 32 alike alike ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | for boys and girls; alike *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | another adult | | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the first one | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 4 | **is a** | present | | the rule | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | the rule | | | | | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «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:14`. **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/). - ← previous: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/13/) - next →: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/)