--- title: Lily is worried about «telling tales», because that is what the boys… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Lily is worried about «telling tales», because that is what the boys sneer at. Who acts: Lily, that, boys. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 6 Lily is worried about «telling tales», because that is what the boys sneer at. **Who acts:** Lily, that, boys · **What happens:** be, tell, sneer at · **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 (Lily, that, boys), 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:6 # text = Lily is worried about «telling tales», because that is what the boys sneer at. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 6 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 sneer sneer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Lily | | | | | about telling tales; worried *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sneer at** | present | the boys | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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:6`. **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): R6-punct-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/5/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)