When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 36
Telling a grown-up about a friend in danger is help, not betrayal, even if the friend is angry at first.
Who acts: Telling, friend · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: grown, help · 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 (Telling, friend), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 help | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 up | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 friend | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | cop |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 betrayal | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 betrayal | advmod |
| 15 | betrayal | betrayal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 help | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 angry | punct |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 angry | advmod |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 angry | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 angry | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 angry | cop |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 help | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 first | case |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 angry | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | grown | about a friend in danger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient about friend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Telling | help and betrayal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the friend | angry property | tree rules |
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:36.
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 ×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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