Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 1
Asking for help is a strength: teachers want you to ask, and if you need to talk to someone privately there are free children's helplines with trained people who listen in confidence.
Who acts: Asking, teachers, you, free helplines, trained people · What happens: ask, be, want, need, talk, train · To what, where: strength, you
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 (Asking, teachers, you, free helplines), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 strength | csubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 help | case |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Asking | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strength | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 strength | det |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 strength | punct |
| 8 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 strength | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 want | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 are | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 are | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 need | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 need | nsubj |
| 17 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 are | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 talk | mark |
| 19 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 need | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 someone | case |
| 21 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 talk | obl |
| 22 | privately | privately | ADV | _ | 19 talk | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 are | expl |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 want | conj |
| 25 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 helplines | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 helplines | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 children | case |
| 28 | helplines | helpline | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 are | nsubj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 30 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 people | amod |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 helplines | nmod |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 listen | nsubj |
| 33 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 people | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 confidence | case |
| 35 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 listen | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Asking | a strength | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | want | present | teachers | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | need a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | to someone; privately property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to someone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | does | present | children's free helplines with trained people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | train | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | listen | present | trained people | in confidence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in confidence=Theme |
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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:1.
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, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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