Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 20

If you break something, tell an adult straight away and say sorry; adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies.

Who acts: you, adults · What happens: break, tell, say, be · To what, where: something, adult, sorry · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning 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 (you, adults), 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 break	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 break	nsubj
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	advcl
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 break	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 break	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 adult	det
8	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 tell	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	conj
13	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 say	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
15	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 upset	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 upset	cop
17	usually	usually	ADV	_	18 less	advmod
18	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 upset	advmod
19	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tell	parataxis
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 honesty	case
21	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 upset	obl
22	than	than	ADP	_	24 lies	case
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 lies	case
24	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 upset	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	something			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a adult	away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	sorry			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
4	is	present	adults			about honesty; than lies; less, upset property	tree rules

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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:20.

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. 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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