--- title: When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kin… — Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a… · tree and pragmatics description: When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kindly, keep it private and remind them they can talk to a trusted adult. Who acts: friend, you, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/26/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Interrupting, boasting, your own story…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money/) / 26 # Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity, sentence 26 When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kindly, keep it private and remind them they can talk to a trusted adult. **Who acts:** friend, you, friends · **What happens:** tell, listen, keep, remind, talk · **To what, where:** something, you, money, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Interrupting, boasting, your own story, losing a pet or a person, bullying, saying no, comparing yourself online, pocket money and curiosity» of the everyday 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 (friend, you, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:26 # text = When a friend tells you something sad about their family, listen kindly, keep it private and remind them they can talk to a trusted adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 7 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 remind remind VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 trusted trusted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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* | present | a friend | something | you | | | about friends's family | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic | | 2 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | money | | | | private *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | friends *= friend* | | | | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **talk** | can | friends *= friend* | | | | | to a trusted adult | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to adult=Co-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:everyday:320-interrupting-boasting-loss-bullying-saying-no-and-pocket-money.lesson:26`. **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): no change. **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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