Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 14
A useful question is: am I telling to help someone or to hurt someone?
Who acts: I · What happens: be, tell, help, hurt · To what, where: useful question, someone · 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 (I), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 2 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 question | cop |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 telling | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 telling | nsubj |
| 8 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 question | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 telling | xcomp |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | conj |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- yes/no question
- act
- ask
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: other | present | a useful question | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · progressive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | hurt | to-infinitive | I not said here | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
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: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): 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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