White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing, sentence 11

Teachers find that praising effort and ideas ("tell me about it") helps children more than empty praise ("you're a genius").

Who acts: Teachers, praising, you · What happens: find, praise, tell, help, be · To what, where: effort, old Jewish teaching, children, genius · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies: the ugly jumper and the bad drawing» 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 (Teachers, praising, you), 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	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	nsubj
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 helps	mark
4	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 helps	csubj
5	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 praising	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ideas	cc
7	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 effort	conj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 praising	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tell	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
16	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	ccomp
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 helps	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 helps	advmod
19	than	than	ADP	_	21 praise	case
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 praise	amod
21	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 more	obl
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	27 genius	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 genius	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 genius	nsubj
25	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 genius	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 genius	det
27	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helps	obj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 genius	punct
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 genius	punct
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 find	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	present	Teachers				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	praise	gerund		effort and ideas			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Theme
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			a old Jewish teaching = teaching	about beautiful	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient about it=Topic
4	help	present	praising		children		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary
5	is a in a quote	present	you	a genius			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:083-white-lies-the-ugly-jumper-and-the-bad-drawing.lesson:11.

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, 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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