When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 32
You can give a friend one chance to stop a small wrong — but if it keeps happening, tell.
Who acts: You, chance · What happens: give, stop, keep, happen, tell · To what, where: chance, friend, small wrong · 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 (You, chance), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | iobj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friend | flat |
| 7 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stop | mark |
| 9 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 chance | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wrong | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wrong | amod |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stop | obj |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 tell | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeps | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tell | advcl |
| 18 | happening | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 keeps | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | can | You | chance | a friend | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient chance=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | You not said here | a small wrong | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wrong=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | chance | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | happen | gerund | chance not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | You not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:32.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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