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title: Keep a friend's private, harmless worries, like wetting the bed, to… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: Keep a friend's private, harmless worries, like wetting the bed, to yourself; sharing them would embarrass them. Who acts: you, sharing, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 17

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Keep a friend's private, harmless worries, like wetting the bed, to yourself; sharing them would embarrass them.

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**Who acts:** you, sharing, friend · **What happens:** keep, wet, share, embarrass, worry · **To what, where:** private harmless worries, bed, yourself, worries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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 (you, sharing, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:17
# text = Keep a friend's private, harmless worries, like wetting the bed, to yourself; sharing them would embarrass them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.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	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	worries	worry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	wetting	wet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a friend's private harmless worries |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worry=Theme |
| 2 | **wet** | gerund | you *not said here* | the bed | yourself |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 3 | **share** | gerund |  | worries *= worry* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **embarrass** | would | sharing | worries *= worry* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 5 | **worry** |  | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | nom worry «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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): 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.

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