Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 6
A girl in Glasgow told the first adult she trusted, the school nurse, that she felt unsafe walking home; the nurse spoke to her parents and they changed how she got home.
Who acts: girl, nurse · What happens: tell, trust, feel, walk, speak, change · To what, where: first adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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 (girl, nurse), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Glasgow | case |
| 4 | Glasgow | Glasgow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 adult | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 adult | amod |
| 8 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 trusted | nsubj |
| 10 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 adult | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nurse | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nurse | det |
| 13 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nurse | compound |
| 14 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 adult | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 felt | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 19 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 felt | xcomp |
| 20 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 felt | advcl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 walking | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 spoke | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nurse | det |
| 24 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spoke | nsubj |
| 25 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 parents | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 parents | nmod:poss |
| 28 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 spoke | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 changed | cc |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 changed | nsubj |
| 31 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 spoke | conj |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 got | advmod |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 got | nsubj |
| 34 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 changed | ccomp |
| 35 | home | home | ADV | _ | 34 got | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | a girl in Glasgow | the first adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | trust | past | girl | the first adult not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | past | girl | unsafe property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | walk | gerund | girl not said here | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | the nurse | to girl's parents | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to parent=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | change | past | nurse | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | get | past | girl | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:6.
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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