--- title: Telling a grown-up about a friend in danger is help, not betrayal, e… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a grown-up about a friend in danger is help, not betrayal, even if the friend is angry at first. Who acts: Telling, 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 claus --- [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/36/) [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/) / 36 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 36 Telling a grown-up about a friend in danger is help, not betrayal, even if the friend is angry at first. **Who acts:** Telling, friend · **What happens:** tell, be · **To what, where:** grown, help · **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 (Telling, 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:36 # text = Telling a grown-up about a friend in danger is help, not betrayal, even if the friend is angry at first. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 3 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound _ _ 6 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 12 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 betrayal betrayal NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 even even ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 18 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 22 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | grown | | | | about a friend in danger | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient about friend=Topic | | 2 | **is a** | present | Telling | help and betrayal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the friend | | | | | angry *property* | 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:36`. **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): R5-strong ×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, 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/35/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/37/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)