A stranger's story, sentence 40

«I'll get my mum» is the perfect answer: it helps if the story is true and protects you if it isn't.

Who acts: job, story · What happens: get, be, help, protect, not be · To what, where: mum, perfect answer, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (job, story), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 get	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answer	csubj
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answer	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 answer	det
10	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answer	amod
11	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 helps	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 helps	nsubj
14	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answer	parataxis
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 true	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 story	det
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 helps	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 protects	cc
21	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 helps	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 protects	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 is	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 is	nsubj
25	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 protects	advcl
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 is	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	future		my mum			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mum=Stimulus
2	be speech: assert	present		the perfect answer			tree rules
3	help	present	job				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the story			true property	tree rules
5	protect	present	job not said here		you		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
6	not be a condition, not said to happen	present	job				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:40.

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. 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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