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title: A family password is a secret word that only family and trusted adul… — A stranger's story · tree and pragmatics
description: A family password is a secret word that only family and trusted adults know; a stranger who can't say it should not be trusted. Who acts: family password, family adults, stranger. A sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# A stranger's story, sentence 30

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A family password is a secret word that only family and trusted adults know; a stranger who can't say it should not be trusted.

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**Who acts:** family password, family adults, stranger · **What happens:** be, trust, know, not say, not trust · **To what, where:** secret word, password · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A stranger's story» 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 (family password, family adults, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:30
# text = A family password is a secret word that only family and trusted adults know; a stranger who can't say it should not be trusted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 446-a-strangers-story.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	password	password	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | a family password | a secret word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | participle | family adults *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present | family adults | a secret word |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | a stranger |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **trust** | should · passive |  | password |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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**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:446-a-strangers-story.lesson:30`.

**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): no change. **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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