--- title: Safe adults never ask children to keep secrets that worry them; such… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics description: Safe adults never ask children to keep secrets that worry them; such a secret is told to a parent or another trusted adult. Who acts: Safe adults, secrets. 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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 (Safe adults, secrets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:17 # text = Safe adults never ask children to keep secrets that worry them; such a secret is told to a parent or another trusted adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 worry worry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 15 det:predet _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 23 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 24 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Safe adults | | children | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Safe adults *not said here* | secrets | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | | 3 | **worry** | present | secrets | adults *= adult* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | such secret | a parent or another trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to parent=Recipient | | 5 | **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:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:17`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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