The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 9
Taking something from a shop without paying is stealing (shoplifting); going back with a grown-up to pay and say sorry helps put it right.
Who acts: Taking, going · What happens: take, pay, steal, go back, grow, say · To what, where: something, shop, grown up, sorry, up · 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 (Taking, going), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stealing | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shop | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shop | det |
| 5 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 paying | mark |
| 7 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Taking | advcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stealing | aux |
| 9 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 shoplifting | punct |
| 11 | shoplifting | shoplifting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stealing | parataxis |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 shoplifting | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 helps | csubj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 grown | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 up | det |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 up | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 up | punct |
| 20 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 going | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pay | mark |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 going | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 say | cc |
| 24 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 pay | conj |
| 25 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 say | obj |
| 26 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stealing | parataxis |
| 27 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 helps | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 put | obj |
| 29 | right | right | ADV | _ | 27 put | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 stealing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | something | a shop | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent something=Theme from shop=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pay | gerund | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | steal | present · progressive | Taking | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go back | gerund | a grown up | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | infinitive | sorry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | |||||
| 8 | help | present | going | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | put | infinitive | going not said here | up | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
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:9.
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 ×3, 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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