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title: Small harmless secrets can be kept; secrets about danger should be t… — The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing you… · tree and pragmatics
description: Small harmless secrets can be kept; secrets about danger should be told to a grown-up. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The big sister: bossy, protective, borrowing your stuff, sentence 38

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Small harmless secrets can be kept; secrets about danger should be told to a grown-up.

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**What happens:** keep, tell · **To what, where:** Small harmless secrets, secrets, 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: 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:38
# text = Small harmless secrets can be kept; secrets about danger should be told to a grown-up.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:det
16	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **keep** | can · passive |  | Small harmless secrets |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | secrets about danger | grown |  |  | a up *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to grow=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:500-the-big-sister-bossy-protective-borrowing-your-stuff.lesson:38`.

**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, R6-punct-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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