--- title: When someone has been hurt, covering is never right, because the hur… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics description: When someone has been hurt, covering is never right, because the hurt person needs grown-ups to know. Who acts: covering, hurt person. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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/436-covering-for-a-friend/31/) [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/) / [Covering for a friend](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/) / 31 # Covering for a friend, sentence 31 When someone has been hurt, covering is never right, because the hurt person needs grown-ups to know. **Who acts:** covering, hurt person · **What happens:** hurt, not be, need, know · **To what, where:** someone, grown ups This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for 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 (covering, hurt person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:31 # text = When someone has been hurt, covering is never right, because the hurt person needs grown-ups to know. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 436-covering-for-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): R5-strong ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 covering covering NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:nsubj 16 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 acl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hurt** | present · perfect · passive | | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | covering | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **need** | present | the hurt person | grown ups | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot up=Theme | | 5 | **know** | to-infinitive | the hurt person *not said here* | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:31`. **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: [Covering for a friend, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/30/) - next →: [Covering for a friend, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/32/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/436-covering-for-a-friend/)