Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 4

A secret like that grows quietly because it has nowhere to go; the mind keeps bringing it back because it is unfinished business, and Chloe forgets that she was seven, and seven-year-olds in a temper do things they bitterly regret.

Who acts: secret, mind, Chloe, year olds, olds · What happens: grow, have, go, keep, bring back, be · To what, where: mind, unfinished business, seven, things · 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 (secret, mind, Chloe, year olds), 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 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grows	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 secret	nmod
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 grows	advmod
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grows	advcl
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 has	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 nowhere	acl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 keeps	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mind	det
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keeps	nsubj
16	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grows	conj
17	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 keeps	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bringing	obj
19	back	back	ADV	_	17 bringing	advmod
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 business	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 business	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 business	cop
23	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 business	amod
24	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 keeps	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 forgets	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 forgets	cc
27	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 forgets	nsubj
28	forgets	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 grows	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 seven	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seven	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 seven	cop
32	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 forgets	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 olds	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 olds	cc
35	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 year	nummod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 seven	punct
37	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 olds	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 year	punct
39	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 do	nsubj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 temper	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 temper	det
42	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 olds	nmod
43	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 forgets	conj
44	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 do	obj
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 regret	nsubj
46	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	47 regret	advmod
47	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 things	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	a secret like that		quietly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	secret		nowhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	go	to-infinitive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	present	the mind			tree rules
5	bring back	gerund	the mind not said here	mind		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	is a	present	secret	unfinished business		tree rules
7	forget	present	Chloe			tree rules
8	is a	past	Chloe	seven		tree rules
9	do	present	year olds in a temper	things		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
10	regret	present	olds = old	things not said here	bitterly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus

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: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): R5-strong ×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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