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title: Tell an adult about a sibling only when someone is hurt, in danger o… — Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell an adult about a sibling only when someone is hurt, in danger or breaking an important rule. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings, sentence 14

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Tell an adult about a sibling only when someone is hurt, in danger or breaking an important rule.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell, hurt, break · **To what, where:** adult, danger, someone, important rule · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frustration, loneliness, guilt and living with siblings» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:14
# text = Tell an adult about a sibling only when someone is hurt, in danger or breaking an important rule.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.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	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sibling	sibling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	breaking	break	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	conj	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | a adult | danger |  | about a sibling | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about sibling=Topic |
| 2 | **hurt** | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **break** | gerund | you *not said here* | a important rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |

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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:094-frustration-loneliness-and-siblings.lesson:14`.

**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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