--- title: Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics description: Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed. Who acts: you, Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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/370-standing-by-a-friend/24/) [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/) / [Standing by a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/) / 24 # Standing by a friend, sentence 24 Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed. **Who acts:** you, Telling · **What happens:** tell, see, save, blame · **To what, where:** truth, teacher, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Standing by a friend» 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 (you, Telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:24 # text = Telling the truth to a teacher about what you saw can save a friend from being wrongly blamed. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 370-standing-by-a-friend.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nmod _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 from from SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 16 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 wrongly wrongly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 blamed blame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | the truth | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Topic to teacher=Recipient | | 2 | **see** | past | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **save** | can | Telling | a friend | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | | 4 | **blame** | gerund · passive | Telling *not said here* | | | | | wrongly *property* | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP» | 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:370-standing-by-a-friend.lesson:24`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Standing by a friend, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/23/) - next →: [Standing by a friend, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/)