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title: Reading someone's diary is wrong, but mean words written down can st… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading someone's diary is wrong, but mean words written down can still come out and hurt. Who acts: Reading, mean words. 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 36

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Reading someone's diary is wrong, but mean words written down can still come out and hurt.

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**Who acts:** Reading, mean words · **What happens:** read, be, write down, come out, hurt · **To what, where:** diary, mean words

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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 (Reading, mean words), 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:36
# text = Reading someone's diary is wrong, but mean words written down can still come out and hurt.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	down	down	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **read** | gerund |  | someone's diary |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | Reading |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **write down** | participle |  | mean words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | can | mean words |  |  |  | still | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | infinitive | mean words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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