Speaking up, saying no and growing up, sentence 17

A girl in Auckland was touched in a way that felt wrong by someone she knew, and she kept it secret for a long time; when she finally told her mum, the adults stopped it, and she wished she had told sooner.

Who acts: way, girl, adults, adult · What happens: touch, feel, know, keep, tell, stop · To what, where: girl, way, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up, saying no and growing up» 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 (way, girl, adults, adult), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Auckland	case
4	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	aux:pass
6	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 felt	nsubj
11	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 felt	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 someone	case
14	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 felt	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 someone	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kept	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 touched	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	obj
22	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 time	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 time	det
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 told	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
30	finally	finally	ADV	_	31 told	advmod
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kept	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mum	nmod:poss
33	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stopped	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 adults	det
36	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 stopped	nsubj
37	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 told	parataxis
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stopped	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 wished	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 wished	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 wished	nsubj
42	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stopped	conj
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 told	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 told	aux
45	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 wished	ccomp
46	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	45 told	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 touched	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past · passive		a girl in Auckland		a way			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	feel	past	a way					by someone; wrong property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	past	girl						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	keep	past	girl	way			time	secret property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	girl		girl's mum			finally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
6	stop	past	the adults	way					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
7	wish	past	adult						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	adult					soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:everyday:215-speaking-up-saying-no-and-growing-up.lesson:17.

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 ×3, 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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