--- title: People who come forward early are usually believed; hiding is what m… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: People who come forward early are usually believed; hiding is what makes you look guilty. Who acts: People, you. 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/40/) [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/) / 40 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 40 People who come forward early are usually believed; hiding is what makes you look guilty. **Who acts:** People, you · **What happens:** come forward, believe, hide, be, look · **To what, where:** People 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 (People, you), 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:40 # text = People who come forward early are usually believed; hiding is what makes you look guilty. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 3 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 4 forward forward ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 believed believe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 13 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 16 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come forward** | present | People | | | | | early, forward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | present · passive | | People | | | | usually *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **hide** | gerund | | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | make *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **look** | present | you | | | | | guilty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:40`. **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): 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, 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/39/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/41/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)