--- title: Kai's friend told him he liked a girl in class — «don't tell anyone!… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: Kai's friend told him he liked a girl in class — «don't tell anyone!» — and Kai kept that one forever. Who acts: friend, Kai. 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/3/) [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/) / 3 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 3 Kai's friend told him he liked a girl in class — «don't tell anyone!» — and Kai kept that one forever. **Who acts:** friend, Kai · **What happens:** tell, like, not tell, keep · **To what, where:** Kai, girl, class, anyone, one · **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, Kai), 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:3 # text = Kai's friend told him he liked a girl in class — «don't tell anyone!» — and Kai kept that one forever. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux _ _ 15 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 17 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 18 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:obj|HaikuPos=NUM:CD:NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 forever forever ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kai's friend | | Kai | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **like** | past | friend | a girl | | class | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot girl=Theme | | 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Kai's friend *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 4 | **keep** | past | Kai | that one | | | | forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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:3`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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. 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