When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 30
Telling was the most loving thing she could do.
Who acts: Ruby · What happens: tell, be, do · To what, where: loving thing · 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 (Ruby), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 loving | advmod |
| 5 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 thing | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the loving thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | could | Ruby | the loving thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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:30.
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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