When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 38
A threat like «tell and you're dead» is a sign the secret is not okay.
Who acts: you, threat, secret · What happens: tell, be, not be · To what, where: sign · 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, threat, secret), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 threat | det |
| 2 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sign | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 tell | mark |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 threat | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dead | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tell | conj |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sign | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sign | det |
| 13 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 secret | det |
| 15 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 okay | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 okay | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 okay | advmod |
| 18 | okay | okay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sign | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a threat | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | the secret | a sign not said here | okay 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:38.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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