Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 21
Telling a grown-up when younger children are being picked on helps protect them.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, pick on, help, protect · To what, where: grown, younger children, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | 13 helps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 picked | advmod |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 children | amod |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 picked | aux:pass |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 picked | aux:pass |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 protect | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | pick on | present · passive | younger children | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | help | present | Telling | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | protect | infinitive | Telling not said here | children = child | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: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): R5-strong ×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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