--- title: Some news, like an illness, a job change or a move, is kept back unt… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: Some news, like an illness, a job change or a move, is kept back until the grown-ups know more and can explain it properly. Who acts: grown ups. A sentence of the lesson «Closed doors, whispers and secrets» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/13/) [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/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Closed doors, whispers and secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/) / 13 # Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 13 Some news, like an illness, a job change or a move, is kept back until the grown-ups know more and can explain it properly. **Who acts:** grown ups · **What happens:** keep back, grow, know, explain · **To what, where:** news, more 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 (grown ups), 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:13 # text = Some news, like an illness, a job change or a move, is kept back until the grown-ups know more and can explain it properly. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 change change NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 move move NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 explain explain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 properly properly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep back** | present · passive | | some news like a illness | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **know** | present | the grown ups | more | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | | 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | can | the grown ups *not said here* | news | | | | properly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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:adult-life:035-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets.lesson:13`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/10/) - next →: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/)