--- title: Telling a grown-up kindly about a little brother's copied homework h… — School rules, honesty and wrong accusations · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a grown-up kindly about a little brother's copied homework helps him learn. Who acts: Telling, necessary. A sentence of the lesson «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/19/) [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/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / [School rules, honesty and wrong accusa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/) / 19 # School rules, honesty and wrong accusations, sentence 19 Telling a grown-up kindly about a little brother's copied homework helps him learn. **Who acts:** Telling, necessary · **What happens:** tell, grow up, copy, help, learn · **To what, where:** a, necessary · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «School rules, honesty and wrong accusations» of the ai 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, necessary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.lesson:19 # text = Telling a grown-up kindly about a little brother's copied homework helps him learn. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 1 obj _ _ 3 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=3:compound 6 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod 7 about about ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 copied copy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | | a | | | | kindly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent a=Recipient | | 2 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | about a little brother's copied homework | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about homework=Location | | 3 | **copy** | participle | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **help** | present | Telling | necessary | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | infinitive | necessary *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:ai:011-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations.lesson:19`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×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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