When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 3

Kai's friend told him he liked a girl in class — «don't tell anyone!» — and Kai kept that one forever.

Who acts: friend, Kai · What happens: tell, like, not tell, keep · To what, where: Kai, girl, class, anyone, one · 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 (friend, Kai), 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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friend	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Kai	case
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 class	case
11	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liked	obl
12	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 tell	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
20	—	-	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 kept	cc
22	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 kept	nsubj
23	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 kept	obj
26	forever	forever	ADV	_	23 kept	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Kai's friend		Kai			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	like	past	friend	a girl		class		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Kai's friend not said here		anyone			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
4	keep	past	Kai	that one			forever property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

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:3.

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, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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