Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 13
Telling tales is telling just to get someone into trouble; reporting harm is telling to protect someone.
Who acts: Telling, reporting harm · What happens: tell, get, protect · To what, where: tales, someone, trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» 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 (Telling, reporting harm), 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 | 4 telling | csubj |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Telling | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | aux |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 telling | advcl |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 get | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 telling | punct |
| 12 | reporting | reporting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harm | compound |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 telling | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 telling | aux |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 telling | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 protect | mark |
| 17 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 telling | advcl |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 protect | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 telling | 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 | tales | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | Telling | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | Telling not said here | someone | trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | reporting harm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | protect | to-infinitive | reporting harm not said here | someone | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary |
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:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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): 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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