Strangers and tricky people, sentence 5
This is not my parent!», kick and pull away, run to a safe place full of people, and tell an adult; if you are lost, the best helpers to ask are a police officer, a shop worker at the counter or a mum or dad with children.
Who acts: This, you, best helpers · What happens: not be, kick, pull away, run, tell, lose · To what, where: parent, adult, you, police officer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers and tricky people» 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 (This, you, best helpers), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 parent | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 parent | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 parent | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parent | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kick | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 parent | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 parent | punct |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 parent | punct |
| 9 | kick | kick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pull | cc |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 kick | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 pull | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 run | punct |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 kick | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 run | obl |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 full | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tell | cc |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 run | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 adult | det |
| 26 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 lost | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 lost | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 lost | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 lost | aux:pass |
| 31 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 tell | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 lost | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 helpers | det |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 helpers | amod |
| 35 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 officer | nsubj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 ask | mark |
| 37 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 helpers | acl |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 officer | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 officer | det |
| 40 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 officer | compound |
| 41 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kick | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 worker | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 worker | det |
| 44 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 worker | compound |
| 45 | worker | worker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 officer | conj |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 counter | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 counter | det |
| 48 | counter | counter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 worker | nmod |
| 49 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 mum | cc |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 mum | det |
| 51 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 worker | conj |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 dad | cc |
| 53 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 mum | conj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 children | case |
| 55 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 mum | nmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 parent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | This | my parent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kick in a quote | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull away in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | to a safe place result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | you | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | the best helpers not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | the best helpers | a police officer and a shop worker at the counter or a mum with children or dad | 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.
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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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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