Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 39
Hiding a problem, like forging a signature or saying «she's busy», keeps the child alone with it; telling helps.
Who acts: Childline, Hiding, telling · What happens: hide, forge, say, be, keep, tell · To what, where: problem, signature, child · 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 (Childline, Hiding, 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 | Hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 keeps | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 problem | det |
| 3 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiding | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 forging | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 6 forging | mark |
| 6 | forging | forge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Hiding | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 signature | det |
| 8 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 forging | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 saying | cc |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 forging | conj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 busy | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 busy | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 busy | cop |
| 14 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 saying | ccomp |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 busy | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 19 child | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 child | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 telling | punct |
| 24 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 helps | csubj |
| 25 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 keeps | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | a problem | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | |||||
| 2 | forge | gerund | a signature | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signature=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Childline | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | present | Hiding | the child | with signature | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | help | present | telling | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:39.
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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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