The secret that got told, sentence 6

Sam tells Jake he still sleeps with a nightlight; Jake tells the football team for a laugh, and Sam is teased for a fortnight.

Who acts: Sam, Jake · What happens: tell, sleep, tease · To what, where: Jake, football team, Sam · 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 (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	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	iobj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sleeps	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 sleeps	advmod
6	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 nightlight	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nightlight	det
9	nightlight	nightlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleeps	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 tells	punct
11	Jake	Jake	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tells	nsubj
12	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 tells	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 team	det
14	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 team	compound
15	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 laugh	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 laugh	det
18	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tells	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 teased	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 teased	cc
21	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 teased	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 teased	aux:pass
23	teased	tease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tells	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 fortnight	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fortnight	det
26	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 teased	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Sam		Jake			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sleep	present	Sam			still	with a nightlight	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	present	Jake	the football team			for a laugh	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent team=Recipient
4	tease	present · passive		Sam		fortnight		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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:6.

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): no change. 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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