--- title: Telling about a threat isn't grassing (telling tales), it's safety. — The kid who has it in for you · tree and pragmatics description: Telling about a threat isn't grassing (telling tales), it's safety. Who acts: Telling, threat. A sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/15/) [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/) / [The kid who has it in for you](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/) / 15 # The kid who has it in for you, sentence 15 Telling about a threat isn't grassing (telling tales), it's safety. **Who acts:** Telling, threat · **What happens:** tell, not grass, be · **To what, where:** tales, safety · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The kid who has it in for you» 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, threat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:15 # text = Telling about a threat isn't grassing (telling tales), it's safety. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.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 Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj 2 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:cop 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 grassing grass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 parataxis _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 parataxis _ _ 10 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | | | | | | about a threat | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about threat=Topic | | 2 | **not** **grass** | present · progressive | Telling | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | threat | safety | | | | | tree rules | 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:471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you.lesson:15`. **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: [The kid who has it in for you, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/13/) - next →: [The kid who has it in for you, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/471-the-kid-who-has-it-in-for-you/)