Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 37
Telling a trusted adult, like a teacher, school counsellor or relative, is getting help, not telling tales.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, get, not tell · To what, where: trusted adult, help, tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 getting | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 3 | trusted | trust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 adult | amod |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 adult | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 teacher | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 teacher | det |
| 8 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adult | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 counsellor | punct |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 counsellor | compound |
| 11 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teacher | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 relative | cc |
| 13 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teacher | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 getting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 telling | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 telling | advmod |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 getting | conj |
| 21 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 telling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 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 adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | get | present · progressive | Telling | help | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not tell speech: assert | gerund | Telling not said here | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:37.
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): R2-punct-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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