Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 17
When he finds Lily crying behind the mobile classroom because a Station Road girl took her phone, he doesn't try to grab it back — he fetches the teacher on duty.
Who acts: Sam, Lily, Road girl · What happens: find, cry, take, not try, grab back, fetch · To what, where: Lily, mobile classroom, phone, teacher, duty
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, Lily, Road girl), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 finds | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | obj |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 finds | xcomp |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 classroom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 classroom | det |
| 8 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 classroom | amod |
| 9 | classroom | classroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crying | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 took | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 12 | Station | Station | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Road | compound |
| 13 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 phone | nmod:poss |
| 17 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 try | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 try | nsubj |
| 20 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 try | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 try | advmod |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 finds | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 grab | mark |
| 24 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 try | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 grab | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 grab | advmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 fetches | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fetches | nsubj |
| 29 | fetches | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 finds | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 teacher | det |
| 31 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fetches | obj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 duty | case |
| 33 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 teacher | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Sam | Lily | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lily=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Lily not said here | the mobile classroom | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind classroom=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a Road girl | girl's phone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not try | present · do-support | Sam | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | grab back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Sam not said here | phone | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fetch | present | Sam | the teacher | duty | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent teacher=Theme on duty=Source |
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:17.
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, 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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