Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 6
The vicar says: "A good secret serves love and will gladly be revealed; a bad secret serves harm and fears the light", and Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6).
Who acts: vicar, good secret, bad secret, Jesus · What happens: say, serve, reveal, fear, speak, protect · To what, where: love, harm, light, children · 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 (vicar, good secret, bad secret, Jesus), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vicar | det |
| 2 | vicar | vicar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 serves | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 secret | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 secret | amod |
| 8 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serves | nsubj |
| 9 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 serves | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 revealed | cc |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 revealed | aux |
| 13 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 15 revealed | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 revealed | aux:pass |
| 15 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 serves | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 serves | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 secret | det |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 secret | amod |
| 19 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 serves | nsubj |
| 20 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 serves | conj |
| 21 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 serves | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fears | cc |
| 23 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 serves | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 light | det |
| 25 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fears | obj |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 light | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 spoke | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 spoke | cc |
| 29 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 spoke | nsubj |
| 30 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | conj |
| 31 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 30 spoke | advmod |
| 32 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 33 protecting | mark |
| 33 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 spoke | advcl |
| 34 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 protecting | obj |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 Matthew | punct |
| 36 | Matthew | Matthew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 children | appos |
| 37 | 18:6 | 18:6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 Matthew | flat |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 Matthew | punct |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the vicar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | serve in a quote | present | a good secret | love | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | reveal in a quote | future · passive | a good secret not said here | gladly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | present | a bad secret | harm | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fear in a quote | present | a bad secret not said here | the light | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | Jesus | strongly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | protect | gerund | Jesus not said here | children | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |
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:6.
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 ×1, 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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