--- title: A secret someone says you must never tell, especially about being to… — Closed doors, whispers and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: A secret someone says you must never tell, especially about being touched or hurt, is never OK, and you should tell a trusted adult. Who acts: someone, you, secret. 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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 (someone, you, secret), 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:7 # text = A secret someone says you must never tell, especially about being touched or hurt, is never OK, and you should tell a trusted adult. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 3 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 nsubj _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 especially especially ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 about about SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 touched touch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 OK ok ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | someone | a secret *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | must | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **touch** | gerund · passive | | | | | | especially *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **hurt** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **not** **is** | present | a secret | | | | | ok *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should | you | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 7 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:7`. **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: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/6/) - next →: [Closed doors, whispers and secrets, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/35-closed-doors-whispers-and-secrets/)