--- title: A diary is private; reading someone else's diary without permission… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: A diary is private; reading someone else's diary without permission breaks their trust. Who acts: diary, reading, answers. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/16/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Peeking at presents and secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/) / 16 # Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 16 A diary is private; reading someone else's diary without permission breaks their trust. **Who acts:** diary, reading, answers · **What happens:** be, read, break, trust · **To what, where:** diary, trust 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 (diary, reading, answers), 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:16 # text = A diary is private; reading someone else's diary without permission breaks their 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 else else ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 10 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 permission permission NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a diary | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | gerund | | someone's diary | | | | without permission | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic | | 3 | **break** | present | reading | answers's trust | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient | | 4 | **trust** | | answers *= answer* | | | | | | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:16`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Peeking at presents and secrets, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/15/) - next →: [Peeking at presents and secrets, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/)