Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 20

Telling tales means trying to get someone into trouble over something small; getting help means someone is hurt, in danger or being bullied.

Who acts: Telling, getting · What happens: tell, mean, try, get, hurt, bully · To what, where: tales, someone, trouble, help, danger · 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 (Telling, getting), 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	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Telling	obj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trying	xcomp
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 get	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 get	obl
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 something	amod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 means	punct
14	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 means	csubj
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 getting	obj
16	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	parataxis
17	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 hurt	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hurt	aux:pass
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 means	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 danger	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 danger	case
22	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hurt	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 bullied	cc
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 bullied	aux:pass
25	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 danger	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
2	mean	present	Telling				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try	gerund					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		someone	trouble	over something	tree rules
5	get	gerund		help			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
6	mean	present	getting				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	hurt	present · passive		someone	danger		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	bully	gerund · passive					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»

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:20.

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. 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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