The secret that got told, sentence 27
A secret told in trust should stay secret; telling «just one person» is how secrets spread to everyone.
Who acts: secret, secrets · What happens: tell, stay, be · To what, where: secret, trust, one person · 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 (secret, secrets), 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 secret | det |
| 2 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 secret | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 trust | case |
| 5 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stay | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 telling | punct |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 spread | csubj |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 person | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 one | advmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 person | nummod |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 person | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 spread | cop |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 spread | advmod |
| 18 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spread | nsubj |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 stay | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 everyone | case |
| 21 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 spread | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | participle | a secret not said here | trust | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stay | should | a secret | secret property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | one person | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | secrets | to everyone; spread 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:27.
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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