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What the grown-ups say, sentence 21 Telling a trusted adult is not weakness; it brings in someone with the power to stop the trouble. **Who acts:** Telling, adult · **What happens:** tell, trust, not be, bring in, stop · **To what, where:** trusted adult, weakness, someone, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson ««Just hit him back» or «tell a teacher»? What the grown-ups say» 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 (Telling, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:21 # text = Telling a trusted adult is not weakness; it brings in someone with the power to stop the trouble. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 11 in in ADP IN _ 10 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case 12 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advcl 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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 | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 2 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Telling | weakness | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring in** | present | adult | someone | | | | with the power | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Asset | | 5 | **stop** | to-infinitive | adult *not said here* | the trouble | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trouble=Eventuality | 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:391-just-hit-him-back-or-tell-a-teacher.lesson:21`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, 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. 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