--- title: A girl in California said yes when an older kid asked her to keep a… — Mistakes, asking for help and saying no · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in California said yes when an older kid asked her to keep a secret about touching; she felt worse and worse until she told her mum, who got help and kept her safe. Who acts: girl, older kid, kid, mum. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, older kid, kid, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:17 # text = A girl in California said yes when an older kid asked her to keep a secret about touching; she felt worse and worse until she told her mum, who got help and kept her safe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ _ 10 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 about about SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 18 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 22 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 conj _ _ 25 until until SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:conj 33 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in California | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a older kid | | girl | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a older kid *not said here* | a secret | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **feel** | past | kid | | | | | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | kid | | kid's mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | | 7 | **get** | past | kid's mum | help | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus | | 8 | **keep** | past | kid's mum *not said here* | girl | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme | 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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:17`. **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, 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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