The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 35
Small secrets, like a sneaked biscuit, can be a sibling deal; anything about safety must be told to a grown-up.
Who acts: Small secrets · What happens: sneak, be, tell · To what, where: sibling deal, anything, grown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Small 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 secrets | amod |
| 2 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deal | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 biscuit | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 biscuit | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 biscuit | det |
| 6 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 biscuit | amod |
| 7 | biscuit | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 secrets | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 biscuit | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 deal | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 deal | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deal | det |
| 12 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 deal | compound |
| 13 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | parataxis |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 anything | punct |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 safety | case |
| 17 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anything | nmod |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | aux:pass |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 grown | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 up | det |
| 23 | grown | grow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 up | punct |
| 25 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | can | Small secrets like a sneaked biscuit | a sibling deal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | anything | 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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