When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 17
Jack told his mum; she called his mate's parents and the police, and the man was found and stopped.
Who acts: Jack, mum · What happens: tell, call, find, stop · To what, where: mum, parents, man · 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: who acts (Jack, mum), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mum | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mate | case |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 called | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 police | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 police | det |
| 14 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 parents | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 found | aux:pass |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 called | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stopped | cc |
| 22 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 found | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Jack | Jack's mum | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | call | past | mum | Jack's mate's parents and the police | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | the man | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stop | participle | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:17.
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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