Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 12

And when you are truly worried about a child's safety, that is not gossip: tell a trusted adult, who knows who to talk to.

Who acts: you, that, trusted adult · What happens: be, not be, tell, know, talk · To what, where: gossip, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation» of the adult life 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 (you, that, trusted adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 worried	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 worried	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 worried	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worried	cop
5	truly	truly	ADV	_	6 worried	advmod
6	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gossip	advcl
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 safety	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safety	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 child	case
11	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worried	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gossip	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 gossip	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 gossip	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 gossip	advmod
16	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gossip	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 adult	det
20	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 adult	amod
21	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 knows	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 knows	nsubj
24	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 adult	acl:relcl
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	27 talk	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 talk	mark
27	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 knows	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	25 who	case
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 gossip	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			about a child's safety; truly, worried property	tree rules
2	not is a	present	that	gossip			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	know	present	a trusted adult				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	talk	to-infinitive					vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to who=Co-Agent

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, 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:adult-life:043-our-street-when-a-guess-becomes-a-reputation.lesson:12.

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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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