--- title: If a friend says or writes that they wish they were dead, tell an ad… — Promises, memory and keeping each other safe · tree and pragmatics description: If a friend says or writes that they wish they were dead, tell an adult you trust straight away. Who acts: friend, ashes, you. 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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 (friend, ashes, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:9 # text = If a friend says or writes that they wish they were dead, tell an adult you trust straight away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = religion-ethics # lesson = 079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.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): no change 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 trust trust VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 straight straight ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **write** | present | a friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **wish** | present | ashes *= ash* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **is** | past | ashes *= ash* | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 6 | **trust** | present | you | a adult *not said here* | | | | away *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adult=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:religion-ethics:079-promises-memory-and-keeping-each-other-safe.lesson:9`. **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): no change. **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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