Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling, sentence 8
When someone might be in danger, safety comes first: say you can't help, don't point, and get an adult or call for help.
Who acts: someone, safety, you · What happens: be, come, say, not help, not point, get · To what, where: danger, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad dilemmas: friends, truth and telling» 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 (someone, safety, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 danger | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 danger | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 danger | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 danger | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
| 8 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 comes | nsubj |
| 9 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 comes | advmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 comes | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | nsubj |
| 14 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 15 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 help | advmod |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 point | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 point | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 point | advmod |
| 20 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | conj |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 adult | det |
| 25 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 call | cc |
| 27 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 get | conj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 help | case |
| 29 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 call | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | might | someone | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | safety | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | not help | can | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not point | infinitive · do-support | you not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | get | infinitive | a adult | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adult=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | call | infinitive | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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:099-olympiad-dilemmas-friends-truth-and-telling.lesson:8.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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