Honest work at school, sentence 19
Telling a teacher quietly about cheating is better than making a public scene.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, be, make · To what, where: teacher, public scene · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» 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 (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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 better | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 cheating | case |
| 6 | cheating | cheating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 better | cop |
| 8 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 making | mark |
| 10 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 better | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 scene | det |
| 12 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 scene | amod |
| 13 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 making | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a teacher | about cheating; quietly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about cheating=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Telling | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Telling not said here | a public scene | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset scene=Product |
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:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.lesson:19.
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 ×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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