Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 23
Telling the truth about who started a fight is fair, even when it is your own friend.
Who acts: truth, Telling, fight · What happens: tell, start, be · To what, where: truth, fight, own friend · 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 (truth, Telling, fight), 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 | 10 fair | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 6 started | mark |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 truth | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fight | det |
| 8 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fair | cop |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fair | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 friend | advmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 friend | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 friend | cop |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friend | amod |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fair | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fair | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | start | past | the truth | a fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Telling | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | fight | your own friend | 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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:23.
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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