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title: It feels as if something big is being hidden, but most of the time i… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: It feels as if something big is being hidden, but most of the time it is about money, plans, a relative's problem, a disagreement, or even a nice surprise. Who acts: It, most. A sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 1

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It feels as if something big is being hidden, but most of the time it is about money, plans, a relative's problem, a disagreement, or even a nice surprise.

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**Who acts:** It, most · **What happens:** feel, hide, be · **To what, where:** something

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life 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 (It, most), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:1
# text = It feels as if something big is being hidden, but most of the time it is about money, plans, a relative's problem, a disagreement, or even a nice surprise.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
19	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	disagreement	disagreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hide** | present · passive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | most of the time |  |  |  |  | about money and plans | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:1`.

**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 ×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/).

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