--- title: If you find out about a present, keep quiet and act surprised; spoil… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics description: If you find out about a present, keep quiet and act surprised; spoiling it takes the joy from the giver. Who acts: you, spoiling. 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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 (you, spoiling), 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:19 # text = If you find out about a present, keep quiet and act surprised; spoiling it takes the joy from the giver. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 act act VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 surprised surprised ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 spoiling spoil VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 giver giver NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | about a present | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about present=Topic | | 2 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **act** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | surprised *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spoil** | gerund | | present | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **take** | present | spoiling | the joy | | the giver | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent joy=Theme from giver=Initial\_Location | 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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:19`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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