When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 1
A surprise is kept for a short time and makes people happy when it is told — a birthday present, a party.
What happens: keep, make, tell · To what, where: surprise, people, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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: 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 surprise | det |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux:pass |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kept | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 makes | cc |
| 10 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 makes | obj |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 told | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 kept | advcl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 present | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 present | det |
| 19 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | compound |
| 20 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 party | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 party | det |
| 23 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 present | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | present · passive | a surprise | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | people | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:1.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.
See the release 0.4.
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