Peer pressure, happy secrets and being trusted, sentence 14

A private, harmless secret about a friend can be kept, but a secret that hides harm or danger must be told to a trusted adult.

Who acts: secret · What happens: keep, hide, tell · To what, where: private harmless secret, harm, secret, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (secret), 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	5 secret	det
2	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 secret	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 private	punct
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 secret	amod
5	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kept	nsubj:pass
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 friend	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 friend	det
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 secret	nmod
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 kept	aux:pass
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 secret	det
15	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	nsubj:pass
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 hides	nsubj
17	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 secret	acl:relcl
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hides	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 danger	cc
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 harm	conj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 told	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 told	aux:pass
23	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 kept	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 adult	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 adult	det
26	trusted	trust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 adult	amod
27	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	keep	can · passive		a private harmless secret about a friend		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hide	present	a secret	harm or danger		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	must · passive		a secret	a trusted adult	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=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:315-dares-surprises-and-being-trusted.lesson:14.

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): no change. 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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