--- title: Then Sam himself tells his big sister that Jake's parents are divorc… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sam himself tells his big sister that Jake's parents are divorcing, thinking family doesn't count. Who acts: Sam, parents, family. A sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The secret that got told](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/) / 8 # The secret that got told, sentence 8 Then Sam himself tells his big sister that Jake's parents are divorcing, thinking family doesn't count. **Who acts:** Sam, parents, family · **What happens:** tell, divorce, think, not count · **To what, where:** big sister · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» of the everyday 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 (Sam, parents, family), 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:8 # text = Then Sam himself tells his big sister that Jake's parents are divorcing, thinking family doesn't count. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 9 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 divorcing divorce VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 ccomp _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 16 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 17 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 count count VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sam Sam | | Sam's big sister | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **divorce** | present · progressive | Jake's parents | | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Sam Sam *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | family | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | 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: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): R5-strong ×1. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/7/) - next →: [The secret that got told, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/)