Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 13
Telling a grown-up when someone hurts you is not telling tales.
Who acts: someone, Telling · What happens: tell, grow up, hurt, not tell · To what, where: you, tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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, 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 telling | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hurts | advmod |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 hurts | nsubj |
| 8 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hurts | obj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 telling | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 telling | advmod |
| 12 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 telling | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 telling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | grow up | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hurt | present | someone | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | present · progressive | Telling | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:13.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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