Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 16

If a bully says it will be worse if you tell, tell a trusted adult anyway, because bullies rely on silence.

Who acts: bully, body, you, bullies · What happens: say, be, tell, trust, rely · To what, where: trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» 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 (bully, body, you, bullies), 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	_	4 says	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bully	det
3	bully	bully	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worse	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 worse	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 worse	cop
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 says	ccomp
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 tell	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
11	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 worse	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 adult	det
15	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 adult	amod
16	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	obj
17	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rely	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 rely	mark
20	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rely	nsubj
21	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	advcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 silence	case
23	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rely	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: warn
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	a bully			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	future	body		bad property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a trusted adult	anyway property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	rely	present	bullies		on silence	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on silence=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:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:16.

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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