Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 22
If a child is hurt in the street, a nearby adult such as a shopkeeper can help quickly; in an emergency adults call 999 in the UK, 911 in the USA and Canada, or 000 in Australia.
Who acts: nearby adult, adults · What happens: hurt, help, call · To what, where: child, street, 999, emergency · 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 (nearby adult, adults), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 hurt | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 child | det |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hurt | aux:pass |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 help | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 street | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 street | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hurt | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hurt | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 adult | det |
| 11 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 adult | amod |
| 12 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | nsubj |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 16 shopkeeper | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shopkeeper | det |
| 16 | shopkeeper | shopkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adult | nmod |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 help | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 call | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 emergency | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 emergency | det |
| 23 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 call | obl |
| 24 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 call | nsubj |
| 25 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | parataxis |
| 26 | 999 | 999 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 call | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 UK | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 UK | det |
| 29 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 call | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 911 | punct |
| 31 | 911 | 911 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 UK | list |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 USA | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 USA | det |
| 34 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 911 | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Canada | cc |
| 36 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 USA | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 000 | punct |
| 38 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 000 | cc |
| 39 | 000 | 000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 USA | list |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Australia | case |
| 41 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 000 | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | a child | the street | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | help | can | a nearby adult such a shopkeeper | quickly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call | present | adults | 999 | a emergency | in the UK | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 999=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:22.
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, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/22/