Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 15

A secret you are told never to tell, especially about touching or being hurt, is not OK, and you should tell a trusted adult.

Who acts: secret, you · What happens: tell, not tell, touch, hurt, not be · To what, where: you, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (secret, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 OK	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 told	aux:pass
5	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 secret	acl:relcl
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 tell	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tell	mark
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 touching	punct
10	especially	especially	ADV	_	12 touching	advmod
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	12 touching	mark
12	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 told	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 hurt	cc
14	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hurt	aux:pass
15	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 touching	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 secret	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 OK	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 OK	advmod
19	OK	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 OK	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
26	trusted	trusted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adult	amod
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tell	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 OK	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive	a secret not said here	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	touch	gerund				especially property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hurt	gerund · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	not is	present	a secret			ok property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	should	you		a trusted adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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: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): R7-rel-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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