Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 9
A closed kitchen door and low voices mean grown-ups are discussing something they are not ready to share.
Who acts: closed kitchen door, grown ups, ups · What happens: close, mean, grow, discuss, not be, share · To what, where: something · 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 (closed kitchen door, grown ups, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 2 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 door | amod |
| 3 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | compound |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mean | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 voices | cc |
| 6 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 voices | amod |
| 7 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 door | conj |
| 8 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ups | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ups | punct |
| 11 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 discussing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 discussing | aux |
| 13 | discussing | discuss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 mean | ccomp |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 discussing | obj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 ready | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 ready | advmod |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 something | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 share | mark |
| 20 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | a closed kitchen door and low voices | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | discuss speech: other | present · progressive | grown ups | something | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 5 | not is | present | ups = up | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | share | to-infinitive | ups = up not said here | 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:9.
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): R8-pos-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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