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What the grown-ups say, sentence 4 Jake's dad told him «stand up for yourself with your fists», and Kieran's uncle said «if you don't hit back you'll be a target forever». **Who acts:** dad, uncle, you · **What happens:** tell, stand up, say, not hit back, be · **To what, where:** target · **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 (dad, uncle, you), 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:4 # text = Jake's dad told him «stand up for yourself with your fists», and Kieran's uncle said «if you don't hit back you'll be a target forever». # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 target target NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 ccomp _ _ 33 forever forever ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 35 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jake's dad | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **stand up** *in a quote* | infinitive | dad | | | | | for yourself; with your fists | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kieran's uncle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **hit back** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | forever *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | you | a target | | | | | tree rules | 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. 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