--- title: A grown-up who asks a child to hide things from parents is a danger… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: A grown-up who asks a child to hide things from parents is a danger sign. Who acts: up. A sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/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/) / [When not to keep a friend's secret](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/) / 16 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 16 A grown-up who asks a child to hide things from parents is a danger sign. **Who acts:** up · **What happens:** grow up, ask, hide, be · **To what, where:** child, things, danger sign This is a sentence of the lesson «When not to keep a friend's secret» 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 (up), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.lesson:16 # text = A grown-up who asks a child to hide things from parents is a danger sign. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 nsubj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 4 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:acl:relcl 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 11 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a up | | a child | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **hide** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a up *not said here* | things | | | | from parents | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Patient from parent=Beneficiary | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a danger sign | | | | | tree rules | 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:437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×3. **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: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/14/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)