«Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say, sentence 21
Telling a trusted adult is not weakness; it brings in someone with the power to stop the trouble.
Who acts: Telling, adult · What happens: tell, trust, not be, bring in, stop · To what, where: trusted adult, weakness, someone, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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 (Telling, adult), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 weakness | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weakness | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 weakness | advmod |
| 7 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 brings | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brings | nsubj |
| 10 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weakness | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 brings | compound:prt |
| 12 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 brings | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 power | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 power | det |
| 15 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 someone | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 power | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trouble | det |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stop | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 weakness | 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 | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a | present | Telling | weakness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring in | present | adult | someone | with the power | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Asset | |||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | adult not said here | the trouble | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality |
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:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:21.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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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