Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 15
That is not an excuse, but it helps the grown-ups help him.
Who acts: That, excuse, grown ups · What happens: not be, help, grow · To what, where: excuse, Jake
This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (That, excuse, grown ups), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 excuse | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 excuse | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 excuse | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 excuse | det |
| 5 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 helps | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 excuse | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ups | det |
| 11 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ups | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grown | punct |
| 13 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 help | nsubj |
| 14 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 helps | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 help | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excuse | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- disagree
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | That | a excuse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | excuse | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | help | present | the grown ups | Jake | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:15.
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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