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description: Some secrets are happy ones: if you find out about a Christmas present, you keep quiet and act surprised, so the giver keeps their joy. Who acts: secrets, you, giver. A sentence of the lesson «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» of the everyday 
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# Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted, sentence 7

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Some secrets are happy ones: if you find out about a Christmas present, you keep quiet and act surprised, so the giver keeps their joy.

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**Who acts:** secrets, you, giver · **What happens:** be, find out, keep, act, joy · **To what, where:** happy ones, joy

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fake websites, fake news and bots, skipping a lesson, keeping surprises and being trusted» 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 (secrets, you, giver), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:7
# text = Some secrets are happy ones: if you find out about a Christmas present, you keep quiet and act surprised, so the giver keeps their joy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.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
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	parataxis	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	act	act	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	giver	giver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
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## 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 | **is a** | present | some secrets | happy ones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | about a Christmas present | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about present=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** | present | you |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **act** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | present | the giver | secrets's joy |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Theme |
| 6 | **joy** |  | secrets *= secret* |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust.lesson:7`.

**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. **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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