--- title: For a small wrong, you can give a friend one chance to stop; if it k… — When not to keep a friend's secret · tree and pragmatics description: For a small wrong, you can give a friend one chance to stop; if it keeps happening, tell. Who acts: you, chance. 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/41/) [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/) / 41 # When not to keep a friend's secret, sentence 41 For a small wrong, you can give a friend one chance to stop; if it keeps happening, tell. **Who acts:** you, chance · **What happens:** give, stop, keep, happen, tell · **To what, where:** one chance, friend · **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 (you, chance), 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:41 # text = For a small wrong, you can give a friend one chance to stop; if it keeps happening, tell. # 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 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 wrong wrong NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 iobj _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 chance chance NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 19 happening happen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 21 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 22 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | can | you | one chance | a friend | | | for a small wrong | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient chance=Theme for wrong=Asset | | 2 | **stop** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | one chance *not said here* | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | chance | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **happen** | gerund | chance *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:41`. **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, 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/40/) - next →: [When not to keep a friend's secret, 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/42/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/437-when-not-to-keep-a-friends-secret/)