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title: A secret told in trust should stay secret; telling «just one person»… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: A secret told in trust should stay secret; telling «just one person» is how secrets spread to everyone. Who acts: secret, secrets. A sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The secret that got told, sentence 27

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A secret told in trust should stay secret; telling «just one person» is how secrets spread to everyone.

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**Who acts:** secret, secrets · **What happens:** tell, stay, be · **To what, where:** secret, trust, one person · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» 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 (secret, secrets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:27
# text = A secret told in trust should stay secret; telling «just one person» is how secrets spread to everyone.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 476-the-secret-that-got-told.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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a secret *not said here* |  | trust |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | should | a secret |  |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | one person |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | secrets |  |  |  |  | to everyone; spread *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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**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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:27`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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