--- title: A surprise is kept for a short time and makes people happy when told… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: A surprise is kept for a short time and makes people happy when told; a secret that makes you worried, scared or sick should be told. Who acts: secret. 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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 (secret), 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:33 # text = A surprise is kept for a short time and makes people happy when told; a secret that makes you worried, scared or sick should be told. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | present · passive | | a surprise | | | time | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | | people | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | present | a secret | you | | | | worried *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive | | a secret | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:33`. **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 ×2, 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, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/32/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)