Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 1
He's late twice, his shoes wear thin and he tells nobody.
Who acts: Sam, shoes · What happens: be, wear, tell · To what, where: nobody · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (Sam, shoes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 late | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | cop |
| 3 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 late | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wear | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wear | nsubj |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 late | parataxis |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wear | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tells | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tells | nsubj |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wear | conj |
| 13 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 tells | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 late | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sam | late, twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | present | Sam's shoes | thin property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | Sam | nobody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent nobody=Recipient |
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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:1.
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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