Helpers in town and building sites, sentence 9
If you see a crime, you tell an adult or the police, because they can stop it.
Who acts: you, police · What happens: see, tell, stop · To what, where: crime, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Helpers in town and building sites» 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, police), 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 | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crime | det |
| 5 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 police | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 police | det |
| 13 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 adult | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stop | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 stop | aux |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a crime | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crime=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | you | a adult or the police | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stop | can | police | adult | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=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:274-helpers-in-town-and-building-sites.lesson:9.
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. 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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