The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 38
Small harmless secrets can be kept; secrets about danger should be told to a grown-up.
What happens: keep, tell · To what, where: Small harmless secrets, secrets, grown · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secrets | amod |
| 2 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secrets | amod |
| 3 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | aux:pass |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | parataxis |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 secrets | punct |
| 8 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 danger | case |
| 10 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 secrets | nmod |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 told | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | aux:pass |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grown | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 up | det |
| 16 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 up | punct |
| 18 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | can · passive | Small harmless secrets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | should · passive | secrets about danger | grown | a up obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to grow=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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:38.
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, R6-punct-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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