--- title: A diary is private; using a secret found by snooping to embarrass so… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics description: A diary is private; using a secret found by snooping to embarrass someone can wreck trust for a long time. Who acts: diary, using. A sentence of the lesson «The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff/35/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [The big sister: bossy, protective, bor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff/) / 35 # The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 35 A diary is private; using a secret found by snooping to embarrass someone can wreck trust for a long time. **Who acts:** diary, using · **What happens:** be, use, find, snoop, embarrass, wreck · **To what, where:** secret, someone, trust 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 (diary, using), 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:35 # text = A diary is private; using a secret found by snooping to embarrass someone can wreck trust for a long time. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 diary diary NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 csubj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 snooping snoop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 embarrass embarrass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 wreck wreck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 17 trust trust NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 18 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a diary | | | | | private *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | gerund | | a secret | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | | 3 | **find** | participle | | a secret *not said here* | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **snoop** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **embarrass** | to-infinitive | | someone | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus someone=Experiencer | | 6 | **wreck** | can | using | trust | | | time | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Patient | 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. **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: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): R8-pos-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. 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