Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 14

But when older boys from the secondary school push Jake around, for once Jake tells a teacher instead of fighting — and, to his amazement, it works.

Who acts: older boys, Jake, amazement · What happens: push, tell, fight, work, amaze · To what, where: Jake, teacher · 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 (older boys, Jake, amazement), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 around	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 around	advmod
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 boys	amod
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 push	nsubj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 school	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 school	det
7	secondary	secondary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 school	amod
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boys	nmod
9	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tells	advcl
10	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 push	obj
11	around	around	ADV	_	9 push	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tells	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 tells	mark
14	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 tells	mark
15	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 tells	nsubj
16	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 teacher	det
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tells	obj
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 fighting	mark
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 tells	advcl
22	—	-	PUNCT	_	30 works	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 works	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 amazement	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 amazement	nmod:poss
27	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 works	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 amazement	punct
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 works	nsubj
30	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tells	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	push	present	older boys from the secondary school	Jake		around property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	present	Jake		a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
3	fight	gerund	Jake not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	present	amazement			to Jake's amazement	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	amaze		Jake				nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:14.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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