Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 17
If something scary on a phone keeps giving you bad dreams, telling a grown-up is the right thing; the friend who showed it usually does not get into big trouble.
Who acts: something, telling, friend · What happens: keep, give, tell, grow, be, show · To what, where: bad dreams, you, grown up, right thing, up, big trouble · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (something, telling, friend), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 keeps | mark |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 3 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 something | amod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 phone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 phone | det |
| 6 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scary | obl |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thing | advcl |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 keeps | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 giving | iobj |
| 10 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dreams | amod |
| 11 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 giving | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 telling | punct |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 thing | csubj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 up | det |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 up | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grown | punct |
| 17 | up | up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 telling | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 thing | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 thing | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 friend | det |
| 24 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 thing | conj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 showed | nsubj |
| 26 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 friend | acl:relcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 showed | obj |
| 28 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 31 get | advmod |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 get | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 get | advmod |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 showed | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 trouble | case |
| 33 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 trouble | amod |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep a condition, not said to happen | present | something | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | something not said here | bad dreams | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient dream=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a grown up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent up=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | telling | the right thing and the friend | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | show | past | the friend | up | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | not get | present · do-support | the friend not said here | big trouble | usually property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into trouble=Destination |
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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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): no change. 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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