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title: Secrets about danger are different: if you think your sister could g… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: Secrets about danger are different: if you think your sister could get hurt, tell a grown-up, even if she's raging after. Who acts: Secrets, you, sister, Clodagh. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 22

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Secrets about danger are different: if you think your sister could get hurt, tell a grown-up, even if she's raging after.

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**Who acts:** Secrets, you, sister, Clodagh · **What happens:** be, think, get, hurt, tell, rage · **To what, where:** grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» 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 (Secrets, you, sister, Clodagh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:22
# text = Secrets about danger are different: if you think your sister could get hurt, tell a grown-up, even if she's raging after.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.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 ×1
1	Secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
16	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
18	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	up	up	PART	RP	_	18	compound	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
27	after	after	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Secrets about danger |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | could | your sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hurt** | participle | your sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  | grown |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 6 | **rage** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | Clodagh |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:22`.

**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 ×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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