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title: Freya said sorry, promised never to read it again, and kept the secr… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Freya said sorry, promised never to read it again, and kept the secret to herself; slowly her sister trusted her again. Who acts: Freya, sister. 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 e
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# Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 8

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Freya said sorry, promised never to read it again, and kept the secret to herself; slowly her sister trusted her again.

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**Who acts:** Freya, sister · **What happens:** say, promise, not read, keep, trust · **To what, where:** secret, Freya · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Freya, sister), 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:8
# text = Freya said sorry, promised never to read it again, and kept the secret to herself; slowly her sister trusted her again.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	2	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
5	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Freya |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Freya *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Freya *not said here* | secret |  |  | again |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **keep** | past | Freya *not said here* | the secret | Freya |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |
| 5 | **trust** | past | Freya's sister | Freya |  |  | again | slowly *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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