Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 26
Trying to grab back something stolen can turn into a fight; fetching an adult is safer.
Who acts: Trying, fetching · What happens: try, grab back, steal, turn, fetch, be · To what, where: something, fight, adult
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 (Trying, fetching), 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 | Trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 turn | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 grab | mark |
| 3 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Trying | xcomp |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 grab | compound:prt |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 grab | obj |
| 6 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 something | acl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | aux |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 fight | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fight | det |
| 11 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 13 | fetching | fetch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 safer | csubj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 adult | det |
| 15 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetching | obj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 safer | cop |
| 17 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 turn | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | grab back not said to happen | to-infinitive | something | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | |||||
| 3 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | turn | can | Trying | a fight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fight=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | fetch | gerund | a adult | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | present | fetching | safe property | tree rules |
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:26.
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. 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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