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title: It can spoil good surprises, scare you with things you half understa… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: It can spoil good surprises, scare you with things you half understand, and break trust. Who acts: Snooping, you. A sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 10

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It can spoil good surprises, scare you with things you half understand, and break trust.

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**Who acts:** Snooping, you · **What happens:** spoil, scare, understand, break · **To what, where:** good surprises, you, things, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Snooping, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:10
# text = It can spoil good surprises, scare you with things you half understand, and break trust.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spoil	spoil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	13	advmod	_	_
13	understand	understand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj
17	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spoil** | can | Snooping *= snoop* | good surprises |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **scare** | infinitive | Snooping *= snoop* *not said here* | you |  |  |  | with things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
| 3 | **understand** | present | you | things *not said here* |  |  |  | half *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 4 | **break** | infinitive | Snooping *= snoop* *not said here* | trust |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |

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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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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