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title: Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes… — Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter. Who acts: Keeping, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels, sentence 15

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Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter.

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**Who acts:** Keeping, telling · **What happens:** keep, make, tell · **To what, where:** grown, feeling · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Landing on an 18 film by accident: how it happens and how it feels» 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 (Keeping, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:058-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident.lesson:15
# text = Keeping it a secret usually makes the feeling heavier; telling makes it lighter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 058-landing-on-an-18-film-by-accident.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	Keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	feeling	feeling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
12	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | gerund |  | grown *= grow* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | Keeping | the feeling |  |  |  | heavy, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feeling=Product |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present | telling | grown *= grow* |  |  |  | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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**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.

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