--- title: Telling quickly is easier than telling later; you can tell any trust… — Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and pare… · tree and pragmatics description: Telling quickly is easier than telling later; you can tell any trusted grown-up, and you can still ask questions days later. Who acts: Telling, you. A sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/) / 23 # Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls, sentence 23 Telling quickly is easier than telling later; you can tell any trusted grown-up, and you can still ask questions days later. **Who acts:** Telling, you · **What happens:** tell, be, trust, ask · **To what, where:** grown, questions · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Next time: switch off, tell a grown-up, and parental controls» of the adult life 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 (Telling, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:23 # text = Telling quickly is easier than telling later; you can tell any trusted grown-up, and you can still ask questions days later. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson # annotation = 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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 csubj _ _ 2 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 7 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 12 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 14 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 16 up up PART RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 23 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 24 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:obl:unmarked 25 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | | | | | | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | Telling | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Telling *not said here* | | | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | you | grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | questions | | | still | late *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:060-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls.lesson:23`. **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 ×5, 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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