Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 9

A secret can grow heavier over time because it has nowhere to go; telling a trusted adult usually makes it much smaller within weeks.

Who acts: secret, telling · What happens: grow, have, go, tell, trust, make · To what, where: trusted adult, adult · 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, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 secret	det
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 has	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	advcl
11	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 has	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nowhere	acl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
15	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 makes	csubj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 adult	det
17	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 adult	amod
18	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 telling	obj
19	usually	usually	ADV	_	20 makes	advmod
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 makes	obj
22	much	much	ADV	_	23 smaller	advmod
23	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 makes	xcomp
24	within	within	ADP	_	25 weeks	case
25	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smaller	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	can	a secret			time	heavy 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	tell speech: assert	gerund			a trusted adult			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
5	trust	participle						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	make	present	telling	adult			small, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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: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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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