--- title: Telling a friend's secret to family still breaks the secret; family… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics description: Telling a friend's secret to family still breaks the secret; family members tell others too. Who acts: Telling, family members. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/28/) [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/) / [The secret that got told](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/) / 28 # The secret that got told, sentence 28 Telling a friend's secret to family still breaks the secret; family members tell others too. **Who acts:** Telling, family members · **What happens:** tell, break · **To what, where:** secret, family, others · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Telling, family members), 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:28 # text = Telling a friend's secret to family still breaks the secret; family members tell others too. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 8 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 breaks break VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 members member NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 16 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 iobj _ _ 17 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a friend's secret | family | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to family=Recipient | | 2 | **break** | present | Telling | the secret | | | still | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer secret=Patient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | family members | | others | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | 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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:28`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [The secret that got told, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/27/) - next →: [The secret that got told, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/29/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/476-the-secret-that-got-told/)