Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 20
"A gossip separates close friends" (Proverbs 16:28); small embarrassing secrets are exactly what friendship protects.
Who acts: gossip, small embarrassing secrets, friendship · What happens: separate, be, protect · To what, where: close friends · 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 (gossip, small embarrassing secrets, friendship), 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 | _ | 4 separates | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gossip | det |
| 3 | gossip | gossip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 separates | nsubj |
| 4 | separates | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 separates | obj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 friends | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 Proverbs | punct |
| 9 | Proverbs | Proverbs | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 separates | parataxis |
| 10 | 16:28 | 16:28 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 Proverbs | flat |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 Proverbs | punct |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 secrets | amod |
| 14 | embarrassing | embarrassing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 secrets | amod |
| 15 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 what | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 what | advmod |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 separates | parataxis |
| 19 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 protects | nsubj |
| 20 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate in a quote | present | a gossip | close friends | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | small embarrassing secrets | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | present | friendship | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: 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:20.
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, R6-punct-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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