--- title: But when older boys from the secondary school push Jake around, for… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: But when older boys from the secondary school push Jake around, for once Jake tells a teacher instead of fighting — and, to his amazement, it works. Who acts: older boys, Jake, amazement. 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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 (older boys, Jake, amazement), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:14 # text = But when older boys from the secondary school push Jake around, for once Jake tells a teacher instead of fighting — and, to his amazement, it works. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 3 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 secondary secondary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 push push VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 10 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 around around ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 once once SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=SCONJ 21 mark _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 19 fixed _ _ 21 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:parataxis 22 — - PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 amazement amazement NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | present | older boys from the secondary school | Jake | | | | around *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jake=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Jake | | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | Jake *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work** | present | amazement | | | | | to Jake's amazement | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **amaze** | | Jake | | | | | | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:14`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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