White lies and kind silence, sentence 15
A surprise is a happy secret that ends soon and is meant to make someone glad.
Who acts: surprise, happy secret · What happens: be, end, mean, make · To what, where: happy secret, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday 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 (surprise, happy 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 surprise | det |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secret | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 secret | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 secret | amod |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 ends | nsubj |
| 8 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 secret | acl:relcl |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ends | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 meant | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 meant | aux:pass |
| 12 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ends | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 meant | xcomp |
| 15 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 secret | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a surprise | a happy secret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | a happy secret | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | mean | present · passive | a happy secret not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | a happy secret not said here | someone | glad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product |
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:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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): 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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