Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 10
A happy secret, like a surprise present, should be kept, because spoiling it takes the joy from the giver.
Who acts: spoiling · What happens: keep, spoil, take · To what, where: happy secret, present, joy, giver
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted» 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 secret | det |
| 2 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secret | amod |
| 3 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 present | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 present | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | compound |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 secret | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 secret | punct |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 kept | aux:pass |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 takes | mark |
| 15 | spoiling | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 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 | 12 kept | advcl |
| 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 | _ | 12 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should · passive | a happy secret like a surprise present | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spoil | gerund | present | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | 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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:10.
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 ×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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