Lies that do real harm, sentence 16
Never joke about swallowing pills or being hurt; if it is true, tell an adult at once.
Who acts: you, accusation · What happens: not joke, swallow, hurt, be, tell · To what, where: pills, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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, accusation), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 joke | advmod |
| 2 | joke | joke | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 swallowing | mark |
| 4 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 joke | advcl |
| 5 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swallowing | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 hurt | cc |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hurt | aux:pass |
| 8 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallowing | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 true | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 true | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 true | cop |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tell | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 true | punct |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 joke | parataxis |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adult | det |
| 17 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 tell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 joke | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not joke speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow | gerund | you not said here | pills | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hurt | gerund · passive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | accusation | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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/everyday/197-harmful-lies/16/