The kid who has it in for you, sentence 23

When a child keeps picking on you, telling a teacher or parent is not telling tales; it is how it gets stopped.

Who acts: child · What happens: keep, pick, tell, not tell, be · To what, where: teacher, tales, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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 (child), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 keeps	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keeps	nsubj
4	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 telling	advcl
5	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keeps	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 picking	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
9	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 telling	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 teacher	det
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 parent	cc
13	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 teacher	conj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 telling	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 telling	advmod
16	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 telling	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	cop
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 stopped	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj:pass
23	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	aux:pass
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 telling	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 telling	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present	a child				tree rules
2	pick	gerund	a child not said here			on you	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on you=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund			a teacher or parent		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
4	not tell speech: assert	present · progressive		tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
5	is	present · passive		child		stop property	tree rules

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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:23.

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): R1-cc-next ×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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