The secret that got told, sentence 8
Then Sam himself tells his big sister that Jake's parents are divorcing, thinking family doesn't count.
Who acts: Sam, parents, family · What happens: tell, divorce, think, not count · To what, where: big sister · 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, parents, family), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 tells | advmod |
| 2 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 Sam | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sister | amod |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 divorcing | mark |
| 9 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Jake | case |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 divorcing | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 divorcing | aux |
| 13 | divorcing | divorce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tells | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 tells | advcl |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 count | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 count | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 count | advmod |
| 19 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | Sam Sam | Sam's big sister | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | divorce | present · progressive | Jake's parents | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Sam Sam not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not count | present · do-support | family | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:8.
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. 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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