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title: Telling a trusted adult, like a teacher, school counsellor or relati… — Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a trusted adult, like a teacher, school counsellor or relative, is getting help, not telling tales. Who acts: Telling. A sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult, sentence 37

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Telling a trusted adult, like a teacher, school counsellor or relative, is getting help, not telling tales.

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**Who acts:** Telling · **What happens:** tell, get, not tell · **To what, where:** trusted adult, help, tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tired, sad or drinking parents: tell a trusted adult» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:37
# text = Telling a trusted adult, like a teacher, school counsellor or relative, is getting help, not telling tales.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.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
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
10	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
17	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | 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 | **get** | present · progressive | Telling | help |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Telling *not said here* | tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

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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:497-tired-sad-or-drinking-parents-tell-a-trusted-adult.lesson:37`.

**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. **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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