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title: Spreading a lie about something private, like bedwetting, is a kind… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: Spreading a lie about something private, like bedwetting, is a kind of bullying; tell a teacher. Who acts: Spreading. 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 35

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Spreading a lie about something private, like bedwetting, is a kind of bullying; tell a teacher.

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**Who acts:** Spreading · **What happens:** spread, be, tell · **To what, where:** lie, kind, teacher · **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 (Spreading), 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:35
# text = Spreading a lie about something private, like bedwetting, is a kind of bullying; tell a teacher.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	bedwetting	bedwetting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bullying	bully	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- 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 | **spread** | gerund |  | a lie |  |  |  | about something | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lie=Theme about something=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Spreading | a kind |  |  |  | of bullying | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a teacher |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient |

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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:35`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1. **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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