--- title: The friend didn't speak to him for a month, then came back and said… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: The friend didn't speak to him for a month, then came back and said sorry. Who acts: friend. 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/25/) [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/) / 25 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 25 The friend didn't speak to him for a month, then came back and said sorry. **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** not speak, come back, say · **To what, where:** Noah · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (friend), 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:25 # text = The friend didn't speak to him for a month, then came back and said sorry. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 back back ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 17 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the friend | | Noah | | month | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | | 2 | **come back** | past | the friend *not said here* | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the friend *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:25`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/24/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)