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title: Private things a friend trusts you with, like wetting the bed someti… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: Private things a friend trusts you with, like wetting the bed sometimes, are also kept, because sharing them would only embarrass them. Who acts: friend, Private things, sharing. A sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary sc
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 4

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Private things a friend trusts you with, like wetting the bed sometimes, are also kept, because sharing them would only embarrass them.

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**Who acts:** friend, Private things, sharing · **What happens:** trust, wet, keep, share, embarrass · **To what, where:** you, bed, Private things, friends

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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, Private things, sharing), 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:4
# text = Private things a friend trusts you with, like wetting the bed sometimes, are also kept, because sharing them would only 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trusts	trust	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obj
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	wetting	wet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	sharing	share	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	embarrass	embarrass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **trust** | present | a friend | you |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **wet** | gerund | Private things *not said here* | the bed |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
| 3 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Private things |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **share** | gerund |  | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **embarrass** | would | sharing | friends *= friend* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |

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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:4`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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