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title: At school, a child who hits, even to hit back, can get a detention o… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics
description: At school, a child who hits, even to hit back, can get a detention or be sent home. Who acts: child. 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 20

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At school, a child who hits, even to hit back, can get a detention or be sent home.

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**Who acts:** child · **What happens:** hit, hit back, get, send · **To what, where:** detention, school

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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 (child), 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:20
# text = At school, a child who hits, even to hit back, can get a detention or be sent home.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **hit** | present | a child |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hit back** | to-infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | can | a child | a detention |  | school |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent detention=Theme at school=Asset |
| 4 | **send** | infinitive · passive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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