The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 14

Hurting an animal is wrong; doing something cruel when angry means the anger needs help, and grown-ups can teach better ways to deal with it.

Who acts: Hurting, doing, anger, grown ups · What happens: hurt, be, do, mean, need, grow · To what, where: animal, something, help, better ways · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Hurting, doing, anger, grown ups), 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	Hurting	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wrong	csubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hurting	obj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 means	csubj
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 doing	obj
9	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 something	amod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 angry	advmod
11	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 means	advmod
12	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 anger	det
14	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needs	nsubj
15	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 means	ccomp
16	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 needs	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 teach	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 teach	cc
19	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ups	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ups	punct
21	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 teach	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 teach	aux
23	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 means	conj
24	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 ways	amod
25	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 teach	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 deal	mark
27	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ways	acl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 deal	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hurt	gerund		a animal		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer animal=Patient
2	is	present	Hurting		wrong property	tree rules
3	do	gerund		something		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
4	mean	present	doing			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	need	present	the anger	help		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
6	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	teach speech: other	can	grown ups	better ways		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient
8	deal	to-infinitive	grown ups not said here	better ways not said here	with up	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with it=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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:14.

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): R8-pos-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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