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title: Telling an adult that someone ignored your stop is not telling tales. — How to say stop · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling an adult that someone ignored your stop is not telling tales. Who acts: someone, Telling, your. A sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# How to say stop, sentence 25

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Telling an adult that someone ignored your stop is not telling tales.

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**Who acts:** someone, Telling, your · **What happens:** tell, ignore, not tell, stop · **To what, where:** adult, stop, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to say stop» 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 (someone, Telling, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:25
# text = Telling an adult that someone ignored your stop is not telling tales.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 388-how-to-say-stop.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	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:acl
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ignore** | past | someone | your stop |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Telling | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 4 | **stop** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom stop «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:388-how-to-say-stop.lesson:25`.

**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/).

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