Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 12
A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant to be kept forever.
Who acts: surprise · What happens: end, make, mean, keep · To what, where: someone, bad secret
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (surprise), 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 surprise | det |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ends | nsubj |
| 3 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ends | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 makes | cc |
| 6 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ends | conj |
| 7 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 makes | obj |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 meant | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 secret | det |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 secret | amod |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 meant | aux:pass |
| 14 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ends | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 kept | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 kept | aux:pass |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 meant | xcomp |
| 18 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 17 kept | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a surprise | soon property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a surprise not said here | someone | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product | |||
| 3 | mean | present · passive | a bad secret | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | forever property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:12.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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