Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 12
Maddie twists her ankle in a scrap behind the garages and tells no one, so it swells to twice its size; the doctor says she should have had ice and a check-up the same day.
Who acts: Maddie, ankle, doctor · What happens: twist, tell, swell, say, have · To what, where: ankle, scrap, one, ice · 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 (Maddie, ankle, doctor), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 twists | nsubj |
| 2 | twists | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ankle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twists | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 scrap | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 scrap | det |
| 7 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twists | obl |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 garages | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garages | det |
| 10 | garages | garage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scrap | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tells | cc |
| 12 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 twists | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tells | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 swells | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 swells | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 swells | nsubj |
| 18 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 twists | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 size | case |
| 20 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 size | advmod |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 size | nmod:poss |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swells | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 says | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 doctor | det |
| 25 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 says | nsubj |
| 26 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 twists | parataxis |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 had | aux |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 had | aux |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 says | ccomp |
| 31 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 check | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 check | det |
| 34 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ice | conj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 up | punct |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 check | compound |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 day | det |
| 38 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 day | amod |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twists | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | present | Maddie | Maddie's ankle | a scrap behind the garages | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | Maddie not said here | no one | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | swell | present | ankle | to ankle's size | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the doctor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | should · perfect | doctor | ice and a check | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient |
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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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