Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 16

When a big Station Road boy knocks a little girl off her scooter, Sam runs to the shop on the corner and tells the man at the counter, who comes straight out.

Who acts: big Road boy, Sam, man · What happens: knock, run, tell, come · To what, where: little girl, corner, man · 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 (big Road boy, Sam, man), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	7 knocks	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
4	Station	Station	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Road	compound
5	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boy	compound
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocks	nsubj
7	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 runs	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocks	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 scooter	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 scooter	nmod:poss
13	scooter	scooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocks	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 knocks	punct
15	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 runs	nsubj
16	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 shop	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 shop	det
19	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 runs	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 corner	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 corner	det
22	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 runs	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tells	cc
24	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 runs	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tells	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 counter	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 counter	det
29	counter	counter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 comes	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 comes	nsubj
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 man	acl:relcl
33	straight	straight	ADV	_	34 out	advmod
34	out	out	ADV	_	32 comes	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 runs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	knock	present	a big Road boy	a little girl			off girl's scooter	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent girl=Patient off scooter=Co-Patient
2	run	present	Sam			the corner	to the shop result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shop=Result
3	tell speech: assert	present	Sam not said here		the man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
4	come	present	the man				out property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:16.

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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