Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform, sentence 34

If you see someone teased about old shoes or free dinners, the kind thing is not to laugh and to help or tell a teacher.

Who acts: you, kind thing · What happens: see, tease, not be, help, tell · To what, where: someone, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Money is tight: free school meals and second-hand uniform» 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 (you, kind thing), 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	_	3 see	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laugh	advcl
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 see	obj
5	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 someone	acl
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 shoes	case
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teased	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dinners	cc
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dinners	amod
11	dinners	dinner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shoes	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thing	amod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 laugh	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 laugh	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 laugh	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 laugh	mark
19	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 laugh	conj
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 teacher	det
26	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 laugh	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you	someone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus
2	tease	participle				about old shoes or free dinners	vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	the kind thing			laugh property	tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	the kind thing not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the kind thing not said here		a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=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:487-money-is-tight-free-meals-and-second-hand-uniform.lesson:34.

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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