Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 0

Bullies often say "Don't tell or it will be worse", because they rely on silence; telling a trusted adult is the way bullying stops.

Who acts: Bullies, it, trusted adult, telling, bullying · What happens: say, not tell, be, rely, tell, trust · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 (Bullies, it, trusted adult, 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	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
5	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tell	advmod
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 worse	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 worse	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 worse	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 worse	cop
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 tell	conj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 rely	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 rely	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 rely	nsubj
17	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	advcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 silence	case
19	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rely	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 telling	punct
21	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 way	csubj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 adult	det
23	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 adult	amod
24	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 telling	obj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 way	cop
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 say	parataxis
28	bullying	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stops	nsubj
29	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 way	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Bullies		often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	future	it		bad property	tree rules
4	rely	present	Bullies = bully		on silence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	a trusted adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present	telling	the way		tree rules
8	stop	present	bullying	the way not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality way=Eventuality

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:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:0.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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