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title: Telling a grown-up about harm is not betraying a friend; it is getti… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: Telling a grown-up about harm is not betraying a friend; it is getting them help. Who acts: Telling, grown, 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 32

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Telling a grown-up about harm is not betraying a friend; it is getting them help.

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**Who acts:** Telling, grown, Secrets · **What happens:** tell, not betray, get, help · **To what, where:** grown, friend, Secrets · **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 (Telling, grown, 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:32
# text = Telling a grown-up about harm is not betraying a friend; it is getting them help.
# 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det
3	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	betraying	betray	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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* | gerund |  | grown |  |  |  | about harm | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient about harm=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **betray** | present · progressive | Telling | a friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present · progressive | grown *= grow* | Secrets *= secret* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | Secrets *= secret* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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:32`.

**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 ×2, 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/).

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