Covering for a friend, sentence 34
A secret about danger, like playing by a flooding creek, is not yours to keep.
Who acts: danger, secret · What happens: play, not be, keep · To what, where: yours
This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (danger, 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 | 2 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yours | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 danger | case |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 secret | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 playing | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 playing | mark |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 danger | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 creek | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 creek | det |
| 10 | flooding | flooding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 creek | compound |
| 11 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 secret | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 yours | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 yours | advmod |
| 15 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 yours | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 yours | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | danger not said here | by a flooding creek | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | present | a secret about danger | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:34.
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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