Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 19
If you find out about a present, keep quiet and act surprised; spoiling it takes the joy from the giver.
Who acts: you, spoiling · What happens: find out, keep, act, spoil, take · To what, where: present, joy, giver
This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning 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 (you, spoiling), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 find | nsubj |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 find | compound:prt |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 present | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 present | det |
| 7 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 find | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 find | punct |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 act | cc |
| 12 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 keep | conj |
| 13 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 act | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 15 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 takes | csubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoiling | obj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 keep | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 joy | det |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 giver | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 giver | det |
| 22 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed form=imp
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out a condition, not said to happen | present | you | about a present | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about present=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | imperative | you not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | act | infinitive | you not said here | surprised property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spoil | gerund | present | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | present | spoiling | the joy | the giver | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent joy=Theme from giver=Initial_Location |
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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:19.
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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