The secret that got told, sentence 28
Telling a friend's secret to family still breaks the secret; family members tell others too.
Who acts: Telling, family members · What happens: tell, break · To what, where: secret, family, others · 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 (Telling, family members), 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 breaks | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 friend | det |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secret | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 friend | case |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 family | case |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 breaks | advmod |
| 9 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 secret | det |
| 11 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breaks | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 members | compound |
| 14 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 breaks | parataxis |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 tell | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaks | 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 | gerund | a friend's secret | family | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to family=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | break | present | Telling | the secret | still | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer secret=Patient | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | family members | others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient |
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:28.
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 ×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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