A stranger's story, sentence 35
An adult who asks you to keep a secret from your parents is a serious danger sign; always tell.
Who acts: adult · What happens: ask, keep, be, tell · To what, where: you, secret, serious danger sign · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (adult), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adult | det |
| 2 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sign | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 asks | nsubj |
| 4 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 adult | acl:relcl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 asks | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asks | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 secret | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 parents | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sign | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sign | det |
| 15 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sign | amod |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sign | compound |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tell | punct |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 tell | advmod |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 sign | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- warn
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=warn
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | a adult | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | a adult not said here | a secret | from your parents | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from parent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a adult | a serious danger sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | always property | 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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:35.
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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