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title: Grown-ups keep friends' secrets too, so whispering on the phone is o… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Grown-ups keep friends' secrets too, so whispering on the phone is often about someone else's private problem. Who acts: Grown ups, whispering. 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 
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# Closed doors, whispers and secrets, sentence 18

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Grown-ups keep friends' secrets too, so whispering on the phone is often about someone else's private problem.

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**Who acts:** Grown ups, whispering · **What happens:** grow, keep, whisper, be · **To what, where:** secrets, phone

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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 (Grown ups, whispering), 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:18
# text = Grown-ups keep friends' secrets too, so whispering on the phone is often about someone else's private problem.
# 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	Grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
11	whispering	whisper	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	csubj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Grown ups | friends's secrets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 3 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  | the phone |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location |
| 4 | **is** | present | whispering |  |  |  |  | about someone's private problem; often *property* | 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:18`.

**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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