Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 21

If you lose a library book, tell the librarian; you may need to pay or replace it, and honesty lets the problem be fixed.

Who acts: you, honesty, problem · What happens: lose, tell, need, pay, replace, let · To what, where: library book, librarian, problem · 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, honesty, problem), 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 lose	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
3	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 book	det
5	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 book	compound
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lose	punct
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 librarian	det
10	librarian	librarian	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 need	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 need	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 need	aux
14	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pay	mark
16	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 need	xcomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 replace	cc
18	replace	replace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pay	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 replace	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lets	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lets	cc
22	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lets	nsubj
23	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 need	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 problem	det
25	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lets	obj
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 fixed	aux:pass
27	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 lets	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lose a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a library book	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the librarian	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent librarian=Recipient
3	need	may	you		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	replace	infinitive	you not said here	librarian	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
6	let	present	honesty	the problem	tree rules
7	fix	infinitive · passive	the problem not said here		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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:21.

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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