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title: A promise to keep a secret does not count if someone is being hurt;… — Promises · tree and pragmatics
description: A promise to keep a secret does not count if someone is being hurt; tell a trusted adult. Who acts: promise. A sentence of the lesson «Promises» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Promises, sentence 29

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A promise to keep a secret does not count if someone is being hurt; tell a trusted adult.

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**Who acts:** promise · **What happens:** keep, not count, hurt, tell · **To what, where:** secret, someone, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises» of the everyday 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 (promise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:199-promises.lesson:29
# text = A promise to keep a secret does not count if someone is being hurt; tell a trusted adult.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 199-promises.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **keep** | to-infinitive | a promise *not said here* | a secret |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **count** | present · do-support | a promise |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:everyday:199-promises.lesson:29`.

**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): 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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