Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 25

A boy in Leeds kept quiet when a friend showed him a knife in his bag; a few days later another pupil was cut in a fight, and he wished he had told a teacher.

Who acts: boy, friend, pupil · What happens: keep, show, cut, wish, tell · To what, where: knife, boy, bag, pupil, fight, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, friend, pupil), 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	5 kept	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 showed	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 friend	det
9	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 showed	nsubj
10	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 showed	iobj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 knife	det
13	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 showed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bag	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bag	nmod:poss
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knife	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 days	det
19	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 days	amod
20	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 later	obl:unmarked
21	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 cut	advmod
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 pupil	det
23	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	aux:pass
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 kept	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 fight	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fight	det
28	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wished	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wished	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 wished	nsubj
32	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 cut	conj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	aux
35	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 wished	ccomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 teacher	det
37	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a boy in Leeds				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	show	past	a friend	a knife	boy	boy's bag		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient knife=Topic
3	cut	past · passive		another pupil		a fight	late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	wish	past	pupil					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	pupil		a teacher			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:25.

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 ×2, 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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