Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 24
If one adult does not help, a child should tell another adult until someone does.
Who acts: one adult, child, someone · What happens: not help, tell, do · To what, where: adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» 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 (one adult, child, someone), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 adult | nummod |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 help | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 child | det |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 adult | det |
| 13 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | obj |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 does | mark |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 does | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | one adult | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | should | a child | another adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | present | someone | vn act-114-1 «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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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): no change. 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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