The secret that got told, sentence 32
Telling a grown-up about harm is not betraying a friend; it is getting them help.
Who acts: Telling, grown, Secrets · What happens: tell, not betray, get, help · To what, where: grown, friend, Secrets · 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, grown, 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 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 betraying | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 up | det |
| 3 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 grown | punct |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grown | compound |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 harm | case |
| 7 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 betraying | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 betraying | advmod |
| 10 | betraying | betray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 friend | det |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betraying | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 getting | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 getting | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 getting | aux |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 betraying | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 getting | obj |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 getting | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 betraying | 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 | grown | about harm | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient about harm=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not betray | present · progressive | Telling | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | present · progressive | grown = grow | Secrets = secret | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | Secrets = secret not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:32.
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 ×2, 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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