The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 4

When he finally came clean, crying, Mum was upset, then hugged him and said "thank you for telling me", and he paid some of it back from his birthday money; telling the truth late was still far better than never.

Who acts: weight, Mum, truth, telling · What happens: come, cry, be, hug, say, thank · To what, where: weight, you, Mum, some · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (weight, Mum, truth, telling), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	finally	finally	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	advcl
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 upset	punct
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 upset	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	cop
11	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hugged	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hugged	advmod
14	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hugged	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hugged	conj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 thank	punct
19	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 thank	obj
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	22 telling	mark
22	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 thank	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 telling	iobj
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 thank	punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 paid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 paid	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paid	nsubj
28	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	conj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 paid	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 some	nmod
32	back	back	ADV	_	28 paid	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 money	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 money	nmod:poss
35	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 money	compound
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 back	obl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 better	punct
38	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 better	csubj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 truth	det
40	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 telling	obj
41	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 telling	advmod
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 better	cop
43	still	still	ADV	_	45 better	advmod
44	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 better	advmod
45	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 upset	conj
46	than	than	ADP	_	47 never	case
47	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	45 better	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 upset	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: evaluate
voice: character
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	weight				clean, finally property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund	weight not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Mum				upset property	tree rules
4	hug	past	Mum not said here	weight		then		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	Mum not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	thank speech: thank in a quote	present			you			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund			Mum			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
8	pay	past	weight	some				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset
9	tell speech: assert	gerund	the truth				late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	past	telling			still	far, good property	tree rules

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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:4.

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, R5-strong ×1, 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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