Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 12
A safe secret is like a surprise party; an unsafe secret is one where someone is being hurt, and unsafe secrets must be told to a trusted adult even if you promised not to.
Who acts: safe secret, unsafe secret, you · What happens: be, hurt, tell, trust, not promise · To what, where: one, someone, unsafe secrets, trusted adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (safe secret, unsafe secret, you), 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 | 3 secret | det |
| 2 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 secret | amod |
| 3 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 party | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 party | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 party | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 party | det |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 party | compound |
| 8 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 secret | det |
| 11 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 secret | amod |
| 12 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 party | parataxis |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 hurt | advmod |
| 16 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurt | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hurt | aux:pass |
| 19 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 told | cc |
| 22 | unsafe | unsafe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 secrets | amod |
| 23 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 told | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 told | aux:pass |
| 26 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 party | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 adult | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 adult | det |
| 29 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 adult | amod |
| 30 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 told | obl |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 promised | advmod |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 promised | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 promised | nsubj |
| 34 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 told | advcl |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 promised | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 not | fixed |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 party | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a safe secret | like a surprise party | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a unsafe secret | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present · passive | someone | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | must · passive | unsafe secrets | a trusted adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R2-punct-next ×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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