The secret that got told, sentence 14
Jake's mate tells him Sam called Jake's mum «just a cleaner»; Jake asks Sam straight, and Sam never said it — the mate made it up because he was jealous.
Who acts: mate, Sam, Jake · What happens: tell, call, ask, not say, make up, be · To what, where: Jake, mum, Sam, mate, cleaner · 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 (mate, Sam, Jake), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jake | case |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tells | iobj |
| 6 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | nsubj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | ccomp |
| 8 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jake | case |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 cleaner | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 cleaner | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cleaner | det |
| 14 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mum | appos |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 cleaner | punct |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 asks | punct |
| 17 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asks | nsubj |
| 18 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | parataxis |
| 19 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asks | obj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 18 asks | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 23 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 said | advmod |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asks | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 said | obj |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mate | det |
| 29 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | nsubj |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 made | compound:prt |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 36 jealous | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 jealous | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 jealous | cop |
| 36 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 made | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Jake's mate | Jake | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | call | past | Sam | Jake's mum | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | Jake | Sam | straight property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sam=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | past | Sam | mate | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make up | past | the mate | cleaner | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Sam | jealous 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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:14.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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