Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 4
If you break something by accident, tell an adult straight away and say sorry.
Who acts: you · What happens: break, tell, say · To what, where: something, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 break | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 break | nsubj |
| 3 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 break | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 accident | case |
| 6 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 break | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 break | punct |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tell | obj |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 away | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 tell | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | conj |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | INTJ | _ | 14 say | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break a condition, not said to happen | present | you | something | by accident | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a adult | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:4.
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): 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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