Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 28
Problems kept secret for a long time usually get bigger, not smaller.
Who acts: Problems · What happens: keep, get · To what, where: Problems
This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (Problems), 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 | Problems | problem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | nsubj |
| 2 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Problems | acl |
| 3 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 kept | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kept | obl |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 get | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smaller | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 smaller | advmod |
| 13 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 bigger | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle | Problems not said here | time | secret property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | get | present | Problems | big, usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:28.
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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