Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 14
"A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); refusing to answer is different from lying.
Who acts: trustworthy person, refusing · What happens: keep, refuse, not answer, be, lie · To what, where: secret · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics 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 (trustworthy person, refusing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 3 | trustworthy | trustworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | nsubj |
| 5 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 secret | det |
| 7 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeps | obj |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 Proverbs | punct |
| 10 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | _ | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 11 | 11:13 | 11:13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Proverbs | nmod |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 Proverbs | punct |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 refusing | punct |
| 14 | refusing | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 different | csubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 answer | mark |
| 16 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 refusing | xcomp |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 different | cop |
| 18 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeps | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 lying | mark |
| 20 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 different | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present | a trustworthy person | a secret | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | gerund | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | refusing | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | refusing not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:religion-ethics:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:14.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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