--- title: The teacher says: «Telling tales is trying to get someone into troub… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: The teacher says: «Telling tales is trying to get someone into trouble over something small — like who pushed in the lunch queue. Who acts: teacher, Telling. 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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 (teacher, Telling), 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:8 # text = The teacher says: «Telling tales is trying to get someone into trouble over something small — like who pushed in the lunch queue. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 6 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ _ 7 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 ccomp _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 over over ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 18 — - PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 like like SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 queue queue NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 3 | **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Telling | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **get** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Telling *not said here* | someone | | trouble | | over something | tree rules | | 5 | **push** *in a quote* | past | | | | the lunch queue | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in queue=Trajectory | 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:8`. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/7/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)