Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 0
Sometimes grown-ups close a door, lower their voices or spell out words so children won't understand.
Who acts: grown ups, children · What happens: close, lower, spell out, not understand · To what, where: door, voices, words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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 (grown ups, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 close | advmod |
| 2 | grown | grow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ups | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ups | punct |
| 4 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 close | nsubj |
| 5 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lower | punct |
| 9 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 close | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 voices | nmod:poss |
| 11 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lower | obj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 spell | cc |
| 13 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lower | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 spell | compound:prt |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spell | obj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 understand | advmod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 understand | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 understand | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 understand | advmod |
| 20 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spell | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 close | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | present | grown ups | a door | sometimes property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | lower | infinitive | grown ups not said here | ups's voices | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spell out | present | grown ups not said here | words | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not understand | future | children | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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, 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:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:0.
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): R8-pos-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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