Standing by a friend, sentence 24
Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed.
Who acts: you, Telling · What happens: tell, see, save, blame · To what, where: truth, teacher, friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (you, 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 save | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 truth | det |
| 3 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 teacher | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 teacher | det |
| 6 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 teacher | nmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 save | aux |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obj |
| 15 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 18 blamed | mark |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 blamed | aux:pass |
| 17 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 18 blamed | advmod |
| 18 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 save | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 save | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the truth | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Topic to teacher=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | save | can | Telling | a friend | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 4 | blame | gerund · passive | Telling not said here | wrongly property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP» |
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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:24.
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 ×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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