Chores and broken things, sentence 4
And if you break something by accident, telling the truth at once and saying sorry is always better than hiding it.
Who acts: you, telling · What happens: break, tell, say, be, hide · To what, where: something, truth, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores and broken things» 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 (you, telling), 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 | _ | 19 better | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 break | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 break | nsubj |
| 4 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 better | advcl |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 break | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 accident | case |
| 7 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 break | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 break | punct |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 better | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 telling | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 telling | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saying | cc |
| 15 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 telling | conj |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saying | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 better | cop |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 19 better | advmod |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 hiding | mark |
| 21 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 better | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hiding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break a condition, not said to happen | present | you | something | by accident | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | telling | always, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hide | gerund | telling not said here | sorry | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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:everyday:111-chores-and-broken-things.lesson:4.
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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