Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 17

Safe adults never ask children to keep secrets that worry them; such a secret is told to a parent or another trusted adult.

Who acts: Safe adults, secrets · What happens: not ask, keep, worry, tell, trust · To what, where: children, secrets, adults, secret, parent · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» 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 (Safe adults, 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	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 adults	amod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 ask	advmod
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ask	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp
8	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 worry	nsubj
10	worry	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 secrets	acl:relcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 worry	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 secret	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 secret	det
15	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ask	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 parent	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 parent	det
20	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 adult	cc
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	24 adult	det
23	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 adult	amod
24	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 parent	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not ask speech: ask	present	Safe adults		children	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Safe adults not said here	secrets		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
3	worry	present	secrets	adults = adult		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		such secret	a parent or another trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to parent=Recipient
5	trust	participle				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: 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:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): 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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