--- title: And after weeks of being called names, he rings Childline from his g… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: And after weeks of being called names, he rings Childline from his gran's phone. Who acts: weeks, Sam. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of the everyday 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/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/18/) [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/) / [Getting help is not telling tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/) / 18 # Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 18 And after weeks of being called names, he rings Childline from his gran's phone. **Who acts:** weeks, Sam · **What happens:** call, ring · **To what, where:** names, Childline, phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (weeks, Sam), 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:18 # text = And after weeks of being called names, he rings Childline from his gran's phone. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 4 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 5 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 aux:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:aux:pass 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 7 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Childline Childline PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | gerund · passive | weeks *not said here* | names | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | | 2 | **ring** | present | Sam | Childline | | Sam's gran's phone | week | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location childline=Theme | 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:18`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Getting help is not telling tales, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/17/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)