Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 21
Telling a trusted adult about bullying or danger is always the right thing, even if others call it grassing or snitching.
Who acts: Telling, others · What happens: tell, be, call · To what, where: trusted adult, right thing, adult · 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, others), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thing | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | trusted | trusted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 bullying | case |
| 6 | bullying | bully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 thing | cc |
| 8 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bullying | conj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | cop |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 thing | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 call | advmod |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 call | mark |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 call | nsubj |
| 18 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 call | obj |
| 20 | grassing | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 call | xcomp |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 snitching | cc |
| 22 | snitching | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grassing | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a trusted adult | about bullying and danger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about bully=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Telling | the right thing | always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call a condition, not said to happen | present | others | adult | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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:21.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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