Promises, sentence 29
A promise to keep a secret does not count if someone is being hurt; tell a trusted adult.
Who acts: promise · What happens: keep, not count, hurt, tell · To what, where: secret, someone, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» 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 (promise), 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 promise | det |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 count | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 keep | mark |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 secret | det |
| 6 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 count | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 count | advmod |
| 9 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | mark |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux:pass |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hurt | aux:pass |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 count | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 count | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 adult | det |
| 18 | trusted | trust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 adult | amod |
| 19 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 count | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | a promise not said here | a secret | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not count | present · do-support | a promise | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hurt a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:199-promises.lesson:29.
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): 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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