Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 35
Telling a trusted grown-up is never getting into trouble; it is getting help.
Who acts: Telling, up · What happens: tell, trust, not get, get · To what, where: trusted grown up, trouble, help · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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, up), 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 | 9 getting | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 up | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 up | amod |
| 4 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 up | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 6 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 getting | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 getting | advmod |
| 9 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 getting | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 getting | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 getting | aux |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 getting | parataxis |
| 16 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 getting | 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 grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not get | present · progressive | Telling | trouble | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination | ||||
| 4 | get | present · progressive | up | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:35.
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 ×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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