Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 13

Some news, like an illness, a job change or a move, is kept back until the grown-ups know more and can explain it properly.

Who acts: grown ups · What happens: keep back, grow, know, explain · To what, where: news, more

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), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 illness	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 illness	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 news	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 change	det
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	compound
10	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 illness	appos
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 move	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 move	det
13	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 news	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kept	aux:pass
16	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 kept	advmod
18	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 know	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ups	det
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 ups	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 grown	punct
22	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kept	advcl
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 know	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 explain	cc
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 explain	aux
27	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 know	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 explain	obj
29	properly	properly	ADV	_	27 explain	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep back	present · passive		some news like a illness		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	grow	participle				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	know	present	the grown ups	more		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
4	explain speech: assert	can	the grown ups not said here	news	properly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:13.

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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