--- title: A stranger who asks you to keep a secret from your parents is a reas… — Strangers who want to chat privately · tree and pragmatics description: A stranger who asks you to keep a secret from your parents is a reason to tell your parents. Who acts: stranger. A sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/28/) [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/) / [Strangers who want to chat privately](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/) / 28 # Strangers who want to chat privately, sentence 28 A stranger who asks you to keep a secret from your parents is a reason to tell your parents. **Who acts:** stranger · **What happens:** ask, keep, be, tell · **To what, where:** you, secret, reason, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Strangers who want to chat privately» 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 (stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:28 # text = A stranger who asks you to keep a secret from your parents is a reason to tell your parents. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 acl _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 15 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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a stranger | | you | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a stranger *not said here* | a secret | | | | from your parents | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from parent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | a stranger | a reason | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | your parents | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately.lesson:28`. **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: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/27/) - next →: [Strangers who want to chat privately, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/410-strangers-who-want-to-chat-privately/)