Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 7
A secret someone says you must never tell, especially about being touched or hurt, is never OK, and you should tell a trusted adult.
Who acts: someone, you, secret · What happens: say, not tell, touch, hurt, not be, tell · To what, where: secret, 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 (someone, you, secret), 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 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 secret | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 tell | advmod |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 touched | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 touched | advmod |
| 11 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 13 touched | mark |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 touched | aux:pass |
| 13 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | cc |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 touched | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 OK | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 OK | cop |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=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 | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 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 | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | someone | a secret not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | must | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | touch | gerund · passive | especially property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | hurt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 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 | ||||
| 7 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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