White lies and kind silence, sentence 23

A boy in Texas kept "kind silence" about a friend's cuts on her arm because she asked him to; she was hurting herself, and only when he told a teacher did she get help.

Who acts: boy, Texas · What happens: keep, ask, hurt, tell, get · To what, where: kind silence, boy, Texas, teacher, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (boy, Texas), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 silence	punct
7	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 silence	amod
8	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 silence	punct
10	about	about	ADP	_	14 cuts	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cuts	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 friend	case
14	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silence	nmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 arm	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arm	nmod:poss
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cuts	nmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 asked	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	20 asked	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 hurting	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hurting	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hurting	aux
26	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl
27	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hurting	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 get	cc
30	only	only	ADV	_	33 told	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 told	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 get	advcl
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 teacher	det
35	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 get	aux
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 get	nsubj
38	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 hurting	conj
39	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 get	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Texas	kind silence		about a friend's cuts on Texas's arm	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about cut=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Texas		boy		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	hurt	past · progressive	Texas	Texas			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	past	boy		a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
5	get	past · do-support	Texas	help			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus

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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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