Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals, sentence 8

If someone has no lunch or very little, tell a teacher quietly rather than helping in a way that embarrasses them.

Who acts: someone, you, way · What happens: have, tell, help, embarrass · To what, where: lunch, teacher, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forgotten lunch, lunch rubbish, a classmate with no lunch, learning to cook, pocket money, southern seasons, jobs and salaries, and festivals» 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 (someone, you, way), 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 has	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 lunch	det
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 little	cc
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 little	advmod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lunch	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 little	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	iobj
13	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 tell	advmod
14	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 helping	advmod
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 helping	mark
16	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tell	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 way	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helping	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 embarrasses	nsubj
21	embarrasses	embarrass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 way	acl:relcl
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 embarrasses	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	present	someone	no lunch				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		a teacher		quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
3	help	gerund	you not said here			a way		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	embarrass	present	a way	teacher				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

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:330-lunch-help-cooking-allowance-southern-seasons-jobs-festivals.lesson:8.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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