Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 21

When you are worried about something you saw or heard, telling a trusted adult helps more than keeping it in.

Who acts: you, telling · What happens: be, see, hear, tell, help, keep in · To what, where: trusted adult, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (you, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 worried	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 worried	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worried	cop
4	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 helps	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 something	case
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 worried	obl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 something	acl:relcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
12	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 helps	csubj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
14	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 adult	amod
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 telling	obj
16	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 helps	advmod
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	19 keeping	mark
19	keeping	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 more	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 keeping	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	19 keeping	compound:prt
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			about something; worried property	tree rules
2	see	past	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	past	you not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	help	present	telling				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	keep in	gerund	telling not said here	adult			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:21.

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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