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title: A secret about danger, like playing by a flooding creek, is not your… — Covering for a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: A secret about danger, like playing by a flooding creek, is not yours to keep. Who acts: danger, secret. A sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Covering for a friend, sentence 34

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A secret about danger, like playing by a flooding creek, is not yours to keep.

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**Who acts:** danger, secret · **What happens:** play, not be, keep · **To what, where:** yours

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering for a friend» 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 (danger, secret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:34
# text = A secret about danger, like playing by a flooding creek, is not yours to keep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 436-covering-for-a-friend.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	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	flooding	flooding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	creek	creek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **play** | gerund | danger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a flooding creek | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | a secret about danger | yours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:436-covering-for-a-friend.lesson:34`.

**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/).

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