Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 25
Explaining why you did something wrong does not make it right, but it helps adults understand and help.
Who acts: you, Explaining, Fighting, adults · What happens: explain, do, not make, help, understand · To what, where: something, Fighting
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 (you, Explaining, Fighting, adults), 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 | Explaining | explain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 make | csubj |
| 2 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Explaining | advcl |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 something | amod |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 make | advmod |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 make | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 helps | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 helps | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 helps | nsubj |
| 15 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 make | conj |
| 16 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 understand | nsubj |
| 17 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 helps | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 understand | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | you | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | Explaining | Fighting | right property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 4 | help | present | Fighting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | understand | infinitive | adults | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | help | infinitive | adults not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:25.
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): 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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