--- title: Hitting back usually makes a fight longer and bigger, and can bring… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics description: Hitting back usually makes a fight longer and bigger, and can bring brothers, friends or the whole street into it. 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 18 Hitting back usually makes a fight longer and bigger, and can bring brothers, friends or the whole street into it. **Who acts:** Hitting · **What happens:** hit back, make, bring · **To what, where:** fight, brothers, street 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:18 # text = Hitting back usually makes a fight longer and bigger, and can bring brothers, friends or the whole street into 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Hitting hit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 21 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 23 . . 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 | **hit back** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | Hitting | a fight | | | | usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fight=Product | | 3 | **bring** | can | Hitting *not said here* | | brothers and friends or the whole street | street | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=Destination | 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:18`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/17/) - next →: [«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher/)