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title: «Ma lips are sealed.» Small treat secrets like that are fine. — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: «Ma lips are sealed.» Small treat secrets like that are fine. Who acts: Small treat secrets. A sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 25

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«Ma lips are sealed.» Small treat secrets like that are fine.

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**Who acts:** Small treat secrets · **What happens:** seal, be · **To what, where:** Ma lips · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 treat secrets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:25
# text = «Ma lips are sealed.» Small treat secrets like that are fine.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.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
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Ma	ma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	sealed	seal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:amod
9	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **seal** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | Ma lips |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Small treat secrets like that |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:25`.

**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. **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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