--- title: A boy in Texas kept "kind silence" about a friend's cuts on her arm… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas kept "kind silence" about a friend's cuts on her arm because she asked him to; she was hurting herself, and only when he told a teacher did she get help. Who acts: boy, Texas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Texas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:23 # text = A boy in Texas kept "kind silence" about a friend's cuts on her arm because she asked him to; she was hurting herself, and only when he told a teacher did she get help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 7 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 cuts cut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 20 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 advcl _ _ 27 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 30 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 39 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | a boy in Texas | kind silence | | | | about a friend's cuts on Texas's arm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent silence=Theme about cut=Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Texas | | boy | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **hurt** | past · progressive | Texas | Texas | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | boy | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 5 | **get** | past · do-support | Texas | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | 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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [White lies and kind silence, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/22/) - next →: [White lies and kind silence, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/)