White lies and kind silence, sentence 8
And happy secrets, like a surprise party, are fine because they end soon and make someone glad.
Who acts: happy secrets, secrets · What happens: be, end, make · To what, where: 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 (happy secrets, secrets), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fine | cc |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secrets | amod |
| 3 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 party | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 party | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 party | compound |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 secrets | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 party | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | cop |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 end | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 end | nsubj |
| 14 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fine | advcl |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 end | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 make | cc |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | conj |
| 18 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | happy secrets like a surprise party | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | secrets = secret | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | present | secrets = 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:8.
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, 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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