--- title: Sam tells Jake he still sleeps with a nightlight; Jake tells the foo… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics description: Sam tells Jake he still sleeps with a nightlight; Jake tells the football team for a laugh, and Sam is teased for a fortnight. Who acts: Sam, Jake. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sam, Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:6 # text = Sam tells Jake he still sleeps with a nightlight; Jake tells the football team for a laugh, and Sam is teased for a fortnight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nightlight nightlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 laugh laugh NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 23 teased tease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fortnight fortnight NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sam | | Jake | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent jake=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **sleep** | present | Sam | | | | still | with a nightlight | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Jake | the football team | | | | for a laugh | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent team=Recipient | | 4 | **tease** | present · passive | | Sam | | | fortnight | | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:everyday:476-the-secret-that-got-told.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): no change. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The secret that got told, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/5/) - next →: [The secret that got told, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/)