--- title: «I'll be your friend forever if you don't tell — but if you do, I'll… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: «I'll be your friend forever if you don't tell — but if you do, I'll never speak to you again,» said Noah's friend, who was bullying a younger kid. Who acts: friend, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, you), 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:23 # text = «I'll be your friend forever if you don't tell — but if you do, I'll never speak to you again,» said Noah's friend, who was bullying a younger kid. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 5 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:parataxis 7 forever forever ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ _ 25 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 Noah Noah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 bullying bully VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 38 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: warn - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=warn | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | Noah's friend *= friend* | your friend | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | forever *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | future | Noah's friend *= friend* | | you | | again | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Noah's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bully** | past · progressive | Noah's friend | | a younger kid | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Beneficiary | 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:23`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/22/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)