Life and death: putting it all together, sentence 17

If a friend says they wish they were dead, tell an adult straight away; Childline is 0800 1111.

Who acts: friend, people, Childline · What happens: say, wish, be, tell · To what, where: adult, 0800 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Life and death: putting it all together» 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, people, Childline), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 says	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wish	nsubj
6	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dead	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dead	cop
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wish	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	conj
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	11 tell	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 0800	punct
17	Childline	Childline	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 0800	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 0800	cop
19	0800	0800	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 says	parataxis
20	1111	1111	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 0800	flat
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish	present	people				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	past	people			dead property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a friend not said here		a adult	away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	is a	present	Childline	0800			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:080-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together.lesson:17.

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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