Our street: when a guess becomes a reputation, sentence 21

If you are really worried about a child being unsafe, tell a trusted adult instead of turning it into gossip.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, tell, trust, turn · To what, where: trusted adult, adult, gossip · 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), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 worried	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 worried	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worried	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 worried	advmod
5	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tell	advcl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 unsafe	obl
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 unsafe	cop
10	unsafe	unsafe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worried	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 worried	punct
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
14	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 adult	amod
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj
16	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 turning	mark
17	of	of	ADP	_	16 instead	fixed
18	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 tell	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 turning	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 gossip	case
21	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turning	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tell	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you				worried property	tree rules
2	is	gerund	you not said here				about a child; unsafe property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a trusted adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	turn	gerund	you not said here	adult		gossip		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into gossip=Trajectory

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:21.

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.

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