--- title: If the first adult does nothing, it is right to tell them again or t… — «Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What th… · tree and pragmatics description: If the first adult does nothing, it is right to tell them again or tell another adult. Who acts: first adult. A sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? 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What the grown-ups say, sentence 22 If the first adult does nothing, it is right to tell them again or tell another adult. **Who acts:** first adult · **What happens:** do, be, tell · **To what, where:** nothing, detention, adult · **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 adult), 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:22 # text = If the first adult does nothing, it is right to tell them again or tell another adult. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 amod _ _ 4 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 does do VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 6 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:xcomp 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the first adult | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | detention | | again | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | another adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:22`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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