--- title: When you are worried about something you saw or heard, telling a tru… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics description: When you are worried about something you saw or heard, telling a trusted adult helps more than keeping it in. Who acts: you, telling. 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/21/) [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/) / 21 # Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 21 When you are worried about something you saw or heard, telling a trusted adult helps more than keeping it in. **Who acts:** you, telling · **What happens:** be, see, hear, tell, help, keep in · **To what, where:** trusted adult, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, telling), 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:21 # text = When you are worried about something you saw or heard, telling a trusted adult helps more than keeping it in. # 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): no change 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 5 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 trusted trust ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 18 than than SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 keeping keep VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 in in ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: evaluate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | you | | | | | about something; worried *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | past | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **help** | present | telling | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **keep in** | gerund | telling *not said here* | adult | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:21`. **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): no change. **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, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/20/) - next →: [Peeking at presents and secrets, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters/)