When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 44
To «grass» or «grass up» (UK) means to tell on someone.
Who acts: grass · What happens: grass up, mean, tell · To what, where: someone · 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 (grass), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 grass | case |
| 2 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 grass | punct |
| 3 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 means | nsubj |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 grass | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 grass | cc |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 grass | punct |
| 7 | grass | grass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grass | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 grass | compound:prt |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 up | punct |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 UK | punct |
| 11 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grass | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 UK | punct |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 means | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 someone | case |
| 17 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 tell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grass up in a quote | infinitive | grass not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | grass | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | grass not said here | someone | 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:44.
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 ×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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