--- title: When a big brother or sister says «tell anyone and I'll kill you» ab… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics description: When a big brother or sister says «tell anyone and I'll kill you» about something embarrassing, like a crush, it usually just means «please keep this private», not a real threat; you keep out of it. Who acts: big brother, it, you. 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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 (big brother, it, you), 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:28 # text = When a big brother or sister says «tell anyone and I'll kill you» about something embarrassing, like a crush, it usually just means «please keep this private», not a real threat; you keep out of it. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:xcomp 10 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 'll will AUX MD Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obl _ _ 19 embarrassing embarrassing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 crush crush NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 usually usually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 just just ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 30 please please INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 obj _ _ 33 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:conj 43 out out ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a big brother or sister | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | a big brother or sister *= brother* | you | | | | about something | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **mean** | present | it | | | | | usually *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **keep** *in a quote* | infinitive | | this | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **keep out** | present | you | | | | | of threat; out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:28`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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