Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 6
Lily is worried about «telling tales», because that is what the boys sneer at.
Who acts: Lily, that, boys · What happens: be, tell, sneer at · 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 (Lily, that, boys), 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 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 worried | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worried | cop |
| 3 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 telling | punct |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worried | obl |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 tales | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 what | mark |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 worried | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boys | det |
| 15 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sneer | nsubj |
| 16 | sneer | sneer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 sneer | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worried | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Lily | about telling tales; worried property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sneer at | present | the boys | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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