Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets, sentence 8
Trust breaks fast and grows back slowly; secrets can feel powerful to share, but trust is worth more.
Who acts: Trust, secrets · What happens: break, grow, feel, share, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «Letting a friend down: broken promises and spilled secrets» 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 (Trust, secrets), 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 | Trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 breaks | nsubj |
| 2 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | _ | 2 breaks | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grows | cc |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 breaks | conj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 slowly | advmod |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 5 grows | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 9 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 feel | aux |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 breaks | parataxis |
| 12 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 share | mark |
| 14 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 powerful | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worth | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 worth | cc |
| 17 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worth | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 worth | cop |
| 19 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 breaks | conj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 worth | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | Trust | fast property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | Trust not said here | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feel | can | secrets | powerful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | secrets not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | trust | worth property | tree rules |
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:004-letting-a-friend-down-broken-promises-and-spilled-secrets.lesson:8.
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): 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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