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title: If a friend shows you a weapon or says they will bring one to school… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: If a friend shows you a weapon or says they will bring one to school, tell an adult right away; it is a danger to everyone. Who acts: friend, friends, weapon. 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 depend
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 18

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If a friend shows you a weapon or says they will bring one to school, tell an adult right away; it is a danger to everyone.

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**Who acts:** friend, friends, weapon · **What happens:** show, say, bring, tell, be · **To what, where:** weapon, you, one, school, adult, danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (friend, friends, weapon), 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:18
# text = If a friend shows you a weapon or says they will bring one to school, tell an adult right away; it is a danger to everyone.
# 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	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	right	right	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **show** | present | a friend | a weapon | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient weapon=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | future | friends *= friend* | one |  | school |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to school=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | present | weapon | a danger |  |  |  | to everyone | tree rules |

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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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:18`.

**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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