Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 8

The teacher says: «Telling tales is trying to get someone into trouble over something small — like who pushed in the lunch queue.

Who acts: teacher, Telling · What happens: say, tell, try, get, push · To what, where: tales, someone, trouble, lunch queue · 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 (teacher, Telling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 trying	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 trying	punct
6	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 trying	csubj
7	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Telling	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	aux
9	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 get	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 trouble	case
14	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 something	case
16	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 get	obl
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 something	amod
18	—	-	PUNCT	_	21 pushed	punct
19	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 pushed	mark
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 pushed	nsubj
21	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trying	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 queue	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 queue	det
24	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 queue	compound
25	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pushed	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the teacher				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund		tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	try in a quote	present · progressive	Telling				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Telling not said here	someone	trouble	over something	tree rules
5	push in a quote	past			the lunch queue		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory

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:8.

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.

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/8/