Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 23

Bullies often say telling will make it worse, but telling a trusted adult is what most often stops bullying.

Who acts: Bullies, telling · What happens: say, make, tell, trust, be, stop · To what, where: classmate, 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 (Bullies, telling), 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	Bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 say	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 say	advmod
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	telling	telling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 telling	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 telling	cc
11	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 say	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
13	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 adult	amod
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 telling	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 telling	ccomp
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 often	advmod
18	often	often	ADV	_	19 stops	advmod
19	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 what	acl:relcl
20	bullying	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stops	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Bullies			often property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	future	telling	classmate		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	trust	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present					tree rules
6	stop	present				often property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	bully	gerund					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent

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:23.

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): R8-pos-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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