Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 4

A boy in Austin who is worried about his parents arguing tells his teacher, and the worry feels lighter; but if an adult ever asks him to keep a secret that makes him uncomfortable, he tells a parent or another trusted adult.

Who acts: boy, parents, worry, adult, secret · What happens: be, argue, tell, feel, ask, keep · To what, where: teacher, worry, 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 (boy, parents, worry, 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Austin	case
4	Austin	Austin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 worried	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worried	cop
7	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 boy	acl:relcl
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 arguing	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 parents	nmod:poss
10	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arguing	nsubj
11	arguing	argue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 worried	advcl
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 teacher	nmod:poss
14	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 feels	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 feels	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 worry	det
18	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feels	nsubj
19	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tells	conj
20	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 feels	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 tells	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 tells	cc
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 asks	mark
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 adult	det
25	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 asks	nsubj
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 asks	advmod
27	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 tells	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 asks	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 keep	mark
30	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 asks	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 secret	det
32	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 keep	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 makes	nsubj
34	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 secret	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 makes	obj
36	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 makes	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 asks	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 tells	nsubj
39	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tells	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 parent	det
41	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tells	obj
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 adult	cc
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	45 adult	det
44	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 adult	amod
45	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 parent	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a boy in Austin				worried property	tree rules
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	boy's parents					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	a boy in Austin		boy's teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
4	feel	present	the worry				light property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	a adult		worry	ever		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a adult not said here	a secret				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
7	make	present	a secret	worry			uncomfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
8	tell speech: assert	present	worry		a parent or another trusted adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
9	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:4.

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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