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title: Sam told Grandad that, and Grandad, after a long sip of tea, said: «… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sam told Grandad that, and Grandad, after a long sip of tea, said: «Well. Who acts: Sam, Grandad. 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.
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# «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 15

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Sam told Grandad that, and Grandad, after a long sip of tea, said: «Well.

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**Who acts:** Sam, Grandad · **What happens:** tell, say, sip · **To what, where:** Grandad, tea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sam, Grandad), 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:15
# text = Sam told Grandad that, and Grandad, after a long sip of tea, said: «Well.
# 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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
7	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
19	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Sam |  | Grandad |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandad=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sip** |  |  | tea |  |  |  |  | nom sip «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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**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:15`.

**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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