Mistakes, asking for help and saying no, sentence 17

A girl in California said yes when an older kid asked her to keep a secret about touching; she felt worse and worse until she told her mum, who got help and kept her safe.

Who acts: girl, older kid, kid, mum · What happens: say, ask, keep, touch, feel, tell · To what, where: girl, secret, mum, help · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mistakes, asking for help and saying no» 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 (girl, older kid, kid, mum), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 California	case
4	California	California	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kid	det
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 kid	amod
10	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 secret	det
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	about	about	SCONJ	_	18 touching	mark
18	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 secret	nmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 felt	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
22	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 felt	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 worse	cc
24	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 worse	conj
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 told	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 felt	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mum	nmod:poss
29	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 got	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 got	nsubj
32	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 mum	acl:relcl
33	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 got	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 kept	cc
35	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 got	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 kept	obj
37	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 kept	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a girl in California				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	a older kid		girl		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a older kid not said here	a secret			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme
4	touch	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past	kid			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	past	kid		kid's mum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
7	get	past	kid's mum	help			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer help=Stimulus
8	keep	past	kid's mum not said here	girl		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme

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:099-mistakes-asking-for-help-and-saying-no.lesson:17.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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