Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 18

Grown-ups keep friends' secrets too, so whispering on the phone is often about someone else's private problem.

Who acts: Grown ups, whispering · What happens: grow, keep, whisper, be · To what, where: secrets, phone

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, whispering), 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	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ups	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Grown	punct
3	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 secrets	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 friends	case
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 problem	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	22 problem	advmod
11	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 problem	csubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 phone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 phone	det
14	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whispering	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 problem	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	22 problem	advmod
17	about	about	ADP	_	22 problem	case
18	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 problem	nmod:poss
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 someone	advmod
20	's	's	PART	_	18 someone	case
21	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 problem	amod
22	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	Grown ups	friends's secrets			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	whisper speech: assert	gerund			the phone		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location
4	is	present	whispering			about someone's private problem; often property	tree rules

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:18.

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, 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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