White lies and kind silence, sentence 25
If a friend is being hurt or hurting themselves, you tell a trusted adult even if they asked you not to.
Who acts: you, things · What happens: hurt, tell, not ask · To what, where: friend, things, trusted adult, you · 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 (you, things), 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 | _ | 6 hurt | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurt | aux:pass |
| 6 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tell | advcl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurting | cc |
| 8 | hurting | hurt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hurt | conj |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 hurting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurt | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 adult | det |
| 14 | trusted | trusted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 adult | amod |
| 15 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 asked | advmod |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 asked | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 asked | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 not | fixed |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a friend | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hurt | gerund | things = thing | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | you | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past | things = thing | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:25.
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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