Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 11

If a game of tag gets too rough, you say it needs to be gentler and tell the duty teacher if it continues.

Who acts: game, you, bell · What happens: get, say, need, be, tell, continue · To what, where: duty teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (game, you, bell), 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 gets	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gets	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 tag	case
5	tag	tag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	nmod
6	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	advcl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 rough	advmod
8	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gets	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gets	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	16 gentler	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 gentler	cop
16	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 needs	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 gentler	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 teacher	det
20	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 teacher	compound
21	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 continues	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 continues	nsubj
24	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	a game of tag		rough property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	need	present	bell			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	bell not said here		gentle property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	bell not said here	the duty teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
6	continue a condition, not said to happen	present	bell			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:11.

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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