Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 26

When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kindly, keep it private and remind them they can talk to a trusted adult.

Who acts: friend, you, friends · What happens: tell, listen, keep, remind, talk · To what, where: something, you, money, friends · 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 (friend, you, friends), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 tells	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 listen	advcl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 tells	obj
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 something	amod
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 family	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 family	nmod:poss
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 something	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct
12	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	12 listen	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 keep	punct
15	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 listen	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obj
17	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 keep	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 remind	cc
19	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 listen	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 remind	iobj
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 talk	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 talk	aux
23	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 remind	ccomp
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 adult	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
26	trusted	trusted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adult	amod
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 talk	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 listen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a friend	something	you	about friends's family	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
2	listen	imperative	you not said here			kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	keep	infinitive	you not said here	money		private property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	remind speech: other	infinitive	you not said here		friends = friend		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	talk	can	friends = friend			to a trusted adult	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-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:26.

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): no change. 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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