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title: «I'll never be your friend again if you tell» is pressure, and a fri… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics
description: «I'll never be your friend again if you tell» is pressure, and a friendship that depends on hiding bullying is not worth much. Who acts: up, you, friendship. 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
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# When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 39

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«I'll never be your friend again if you tell» is pressure, and a friendship that depends on hiding bullying is not worth much.

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**Who acts:** up, you, friendship · **What happens:** not be, tell, be, depend, hide, bully · **To what, where:** friend, pressure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (up, you, friendship), 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:39
# text = «I'll never be your friend again if you tell» is pressure, and a friendship that depends on hiding bullying is not worth much.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	csubj	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:case
22	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	obl	_	_
23	bullying	bully	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	obj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
27	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | future | a up *= up* | your friend |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | pressure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **depend** | present | a friendship |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bully** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | a friendship |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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, 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/).

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