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title: If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder. Who acts: you, friend, waiting. 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 24

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If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder.

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**Who acts:** you, friend, waiting · **What happens:** lose, lend, tell, help, find, replace · **To what, where:** something, you, friends, honesty · **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 (you, friend, waiting), 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:24
# text = If you lose something a friend lent you, tell them quickly and help find or replace it; waiting makes it harder.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×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	lose	lose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lent	lend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	replace	replace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=imp, act=suggest

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lend** | past | a friend | you |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | friends *= friend* |  |  | quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **replace** | infinitive | you *not said here* | honesty |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **make** | present | waiting | honesty |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:24`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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