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A sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, rai…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/75-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no/) / 15 # Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no, sentence 15 Telling an adult about a friend's dangerous plan can save a life, and it isn't snitching or grassing (telling tales). **Who acts:** Telling, life, tales, friend · **What happens:** tell, save, not snitch, grass, plan · **To what, where:** adult, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Dares: cliffs, roofs, tombstoning, railways and saying no» of the medicine 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, life, tales, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.lesson:15 # text = Telling an adult about a friend's dangerous plan can save a life, and it isn't snitching or grassing (telling tales). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 csubj _ _ 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 _ 9 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 snitching snitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 grassing grass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 24 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 parataxis _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | | | a adult | | | about a friend's dangerous plan | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient about plan=Topic | | 2 | **save** | can | Telling | a life | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 3 | **not** **snitch** *speech: other* | present · progressive | life | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grass** | gerund | life *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | tales *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **plan** | | a friend | | | | | | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:medicine:075-dares-cliffs-roofs-tombstoning-railways-and-saying-no.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): R6-punct-agree ×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. 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