--- title: Telling tales means trying to get someone into trouble over somethin… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Telling tales means trying to get someone into trouble over something small; getting help means someone is hurt, in danger or being bullied. Who acts: Telling, getting. 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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 (Telling, getting), 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:20 # text = Telling tales means trying to get someone into trouble over something small; getting help means someone is hurt, in danger or being bullied. # 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 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 trying try VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 ccomp _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 12 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 getting get VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 15 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 ccomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 bullied bully VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 2 | **mean** | present | Telling | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **try** | gerund | | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | someone | | trouble | | over something | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | gerund | | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 6 | **mean** | present | getting | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **hurt** | present · passive | | someone | | danger | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 8 | **bully** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary» | 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:20`. **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. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/19/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)