The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape, sentence 13
Telling a grown-up about bullying is not snitching or grassing; it is keeping someone safe.
Who acts: Telling, grown · What happens: tell, not be, grass, keep · To what, where: grown, snitching, someone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fight I lost and the bullying I can't escape» 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 (Telling, grown), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 snitching | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound:prt |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 bullying | case |
| 7 | bullying | bullying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 snitching | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 snitching | advmod |
| 10 | snitching | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 grassing | cc |
| 12 | grassing | grass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 snitching | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 keeping | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keeping | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 keeping | aux |
| 16 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 snitching | parataxis |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 keeping | obj |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keeping | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 snitching | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | grown | about bullying | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient about bullying=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not be speech: other | present | Telling | snitching | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grass | gerund | Telling not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | keep | present · progressive | grown = grown-up | someone | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=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:018-the-fight-i-lost-and-the-bullying-i-cant-escape.lesson:13.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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