Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 30

And when big brother Mo said «I'll never tell on you, and you never tell on me», then smashed a window, Leo quietly told Mum.

Who acts: Mo, you, Leo · What happens: say, not tell, smash, tell · To what, where: window, Mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (Mo, you, Leo), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 said	advmod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Mo	nmod:desc
5	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 told	advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 tell	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 tell	advmod
18	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 tell	obl
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 smashed	advmod
24	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 window	det
26	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 smashed	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 smashed	punct
28	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 told	nsubj
29	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	30 told	advmod
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=narrate

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mo big brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert in a quote	future	Mo big brother = mo				on you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you				on Mo big brother = mo	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	smash	past	Mo big brother not said here	a window		then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Leo		Mum		quietly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient

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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:30.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, 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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