--- title: Small secrets, like a sneaked biscuit, can be a sibling deal; anythi… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics description: Small secrets, like a sneaked biscuit, can be a sibling deal; anything about safety must be told to a grown-up. Who acts: Small secrets. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/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 favourite, the black sheep, coveri…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs/) / 35 # The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 35 Small secrets, like a sneaked biscuit, can be a sibling deal; anything about safety must be told to a grown-up. **Who acts:** Small secrets · **What happens:** sneak, be, tell · **To what, where:** sibling deal, anything, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Small secrets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:35 # text = Small secrets, like a sneaked biscuit, can be a sibling deal; anything about safety must be told to a grown-up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 sneaked sneak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 biscuit biscuit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 sibling sibling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 parataxis _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 about about ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 23 grown grow NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sneak** | participle | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | can | Small secrets like a sneaked biscuit | a sibling deal | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive | | anything | grown | | | a up *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to grow=Recipient | 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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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