Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels, sentence 26
Telling a teacher about names that won't stop is getting help, not being a baby.
Who acts: names, Telling · What happens: tell, not stop, get, not be · To what, where: teacher, help, baby · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wimp, scaredy-cat and other labels» 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 (names, 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 11 getting | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 teacher | det |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | iobj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 names | case |
| 5 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stop | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 stop | advmod |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 names | acl:relcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 getting | aux |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 baby | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 baby | advmod |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 baby | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a teacher | about names | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient about name=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not stop | future | names | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | present · progressive | Telling | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is a | gerund | Telling not said here | a baby | tree rules |
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:367-wimp-scaredy-cat-and-other-labels.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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