Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 10
It can spoil good surprises, scare you with things you half understand, and break trust.
Who acts: Snooping, you · What happens: spoil, scare, understand, break · To what, where: good surprises, you, things, trust
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Snooping, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoil | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoil | aux |
| 3 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprises | amod |
| 5 | surprises | surprise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spoil | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 scare | punct |
| 7 | scare | scare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoil | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 scare | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 scare | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 understand | nsubj |
| 12 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 understand | advmod |
| 13 | understand | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 break | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 break | cc |
| 16 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spoil | conj |
| 17 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 break | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | can | Snooping = snoop | good surprises | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scare | infinitive | Snooping = snoop not said here | you | with things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | understand | present | you | things not said here | half property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | break | infinitive | Snooping = snoop not said here | trust | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |
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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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