Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 23

Telling quickly is easier than telling later; you can tell any trusted grown-up, and you can still ask questions days later.

Who acts: Telling, you · What happens: tell, be, trust, ask · To what, where: grown, questions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» 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 (Telling, 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	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 easier	csubj
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Telling	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	cop
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 telling	mark
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 easier	advcl
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 telling	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	parataxis
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 up	det
13	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 up	amod
14	grown	grow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 up	punct
16	up	up	PART	_	14 grown	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ask	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ask	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 ask	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 ask	aux
21	still	still	ADV	_	22 ask	advmod
22	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	conj
23	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ask	obj
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 later	obl:unmarked
25	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 ask	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 easier	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund				quickly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Telling			easy property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	Telling not said here			late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	can	you	grown			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient
5	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	can	you	questions	still	late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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, 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:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:23.

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 ×5, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/23/