The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 35
A diary is private; using a secret found by snooping to embarrass someone can wreck trust for a long time.
Who acts: diary, using · What happens: be, use, find, snoop, embarrass, wreck · To what, where: secret, someone, trust
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (diary, using), 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 diary | det |
| 2 | diary | diary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 private | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 private | cop |
| 4 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 private | punct |
| 6 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 wreck | csubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 secret | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 using | obj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 secret | acl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 11 snooping | mark |
| 11 | snooping | snoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 found | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 embarrass | mark |
| 13 | embarrass | embarrass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 snooping | xcomp |
| 14 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 embarrass | obj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wreck | aux |
| 16 | wreck | wreck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 private | parataxis |
| 17 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wreck | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wreck | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 private | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a diary | private property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | gerund | a secret | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | |||||
| 3 | find | participle | a secret not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | snoop | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | embarrass | to-infinitive | someone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | wreck | can | using | trust | time | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:35.
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): R8-pos-agree ×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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