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title: If someone is being hurt or is in danger, you must tell a trusted gr… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is being hurt or is in danger, you must tell a trusted grown-up, even if you promised not to. Who acts: you. 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 31

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If someone is being hurt or is in danger, you must tell a trusted grown-up, even if you promised not to.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hurt, be, tell, trust, not promise · **To what, where:** someone, danger, grown · **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 (you), 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:31
# text = If someone is being hurt or is in danger, you must tell a trusted grown-up, even if you promised not to.
# 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 ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
16	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	even	even	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must | you | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient up=Topic |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:31`.

**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 ×3. **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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