Olympiad practice: the hardest cases, sentence 2
Some cases have a firm answer: if a friend says she's running away tonight and makes you promise not to tell, safety comes before the promise, so tell a trusted adult right away.
Who acts: cases, friend, you, safety · What happens: have, say, run away, make, promise, not tell · To what, where: firm answer, promise, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad practice: the hardest cases» of the religion ethics 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 (cases, friend, you, safety), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cases | det |
| 2 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 answer | det |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answer | amod |
| 6 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 says | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 running | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 running | aux |
| 14 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 running | advmod |
| 16 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 running | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 makes | cc |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nsubj |
| 20 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | ccomp |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 tell | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 tell | mark |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promise | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 comes | punct |
| 25 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 comes | nsubj |
| 26 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 makes | advcl |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 29 promise | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 promise | det |
| 29 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 comes | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tell | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 tell | advmod |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 makes | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 adult | det |
| 34 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 adult | amod |
| 35 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tell | obj |
| 36 | right | right | ADV | _ | 37 away | advmod |
| 37 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 tell | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some cases | a firm answer | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen | present | a friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run away | present · progressive | friend | tonight | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | present | a friend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | present | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | not tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | come | present | safety | the promise | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before promise=Location | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a friend not said here | a trusted adult | away property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||
| 9 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «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:religion-ethics:100-olympiad-practice-the-hardest-cases.lesson:2.
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 ×2. 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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