Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 2

Grown-ups talk privately first so they can be honest, work things out calmly, and then tell you once, clearly and gently, instead of giving you half-finished worry that might turn out to be nothing.

Who acts: Grown ups, ups, finished worry · What happens: grow, talk, be, work out, tell, give · To what, where: things, you, finished worry, nothing · 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 (Grown ups, ups, finished worry), 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 talk	nsubj
4	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	privately	privately	ADV	_	4 talk	advmod
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 talk	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 honest	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 honest	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 honest	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 honest	cop
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 talk	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 talk	advcl
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 work	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	13 work	compound:prt
16	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	13 work	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tell	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 tell	advmod
20	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 work	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 tell	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 clearly	punct
24	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 gently	cc
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	24 clearly	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 giving	punct
28	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 giving	mark
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 instead	fixed
30	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 tell	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 giving	iobj
32	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 finished	advmod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 half	punct
34	finished	finished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 worry	amod
35	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 giving	obj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 turn	nsubj
37	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 turn	aux
38	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 worry	acl:relcl
39	out	out	ADP	_	38 turn	compound:prt
40	to	to	PART	_	42 nothing	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 nothing	cop
42	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 turn	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talk	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	talk	present	Grown ups				first, privately property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	can	ups = up				honest property	tree rules
4	work out	infinitive	Grown ups not said here	things			calmly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Grown ups not said here		you	then	clearly, once property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	give	gerund	Grown ups not said here	finished worry	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient worry=Theme
7	turn out	might	finished worry					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	to-infinitive	finished worry not said here	nothing				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:2.

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, 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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