Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 15

Telling an adult about a friend's dangerous plan can save a life, and it isn't snitching or grassing (telling tales).

Who acts: Telling, life, tales, friend · What happens: tell, save, not snitch, grass, plan · To what, where: adult, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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 (Telling, life, tales, friend), 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	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 save	csubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adult	det
3	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	9 plan	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 friend	case
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obl
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 save	aux
11	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 life	det
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 save	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 snitching	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 snitching	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 snitching	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 snitching	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 snitching	advmod
19	snitching	snitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 save	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 grassing	cc
21	grassing	grass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 snitching	conj
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 telling	punct
23	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 tales	acl
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grassing	parataxis
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	24 tales	punct
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 save	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			a adult	about a friend's dangerous plan	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about plan=Topic
2	save	can	Telling	a life			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	not snitch speech: other	present · progressive	life				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	grass	gerund	life not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	tales not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	plan		a friend				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:15.

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 ×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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