The secret that got told, sentence 12

At a sleepover Ellie reads out Maddie's diary, where Maddie had called her «a goose»; in the end both girls say sorry — Ellie for reading it, Maddie for the mean words.

Who acts: Ellie, Maddie, girls · What happens: read out, call, say, read · To what, where: diary, sleepover, Ellie, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» 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 (Ellie, Maddie, girls), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 sleepover	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sleepover	det
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reads	obl
4	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reads	nsubj
5	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 reads	compound:prt
7	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 diary	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Maddie	case
9	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reads	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 called	advmod
12	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 diary	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	obj
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 goose	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 goose	det
18	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 goose	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 end	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 end	det
23	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obl
24	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 girls	det
25	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reads	parataxis
27	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 say	ccomp
28	—	-	PUNCT	_	29 Ellie	punct
29	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sorry	obl
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 reading	mark
31	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 say	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reading	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Maddie	punct
34	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 reads	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 words	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 words	det
37	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 words	amod
38	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reads	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reads	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read out	present	Ellie	Maddie's diary		a sleepover		for the mean words; Maddie obl	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent diary=Theme at sleepover=Value
2	call	past · perfect	Maddie		Ellie				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	present	both girls				in the end		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in end=Manner
4	read	gerund	both girls not said here	diary					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:12.

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): R7-rel-agree ×5. 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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