Promises, memory and keeping each other safe, sentence 12
Telling an adult when a friend is in danger is being a good friend, not a snitch.
Who acts: friend, Telling · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: adult, danger, good friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises, memory and keeping each other safe» 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 (friend, Telling), 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 | 14 friend | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 adult | det |
| 3 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 danger | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 danger | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 danger | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 danger | case |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 friend | aux |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 friend | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 snitch | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 snitch | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snitch | det |
| 18 | snitch | snitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friend | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | a friend | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present · progressive | Telling | a good friend and a snitch | tree rules |
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:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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