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title: A small treat secret with a grandparent is fine; a secret about safe… — The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad · tree and pragmatics
description: A small treat secret with a grandparent is fine; a secret about safety, or one that makes you feel bad, should always be told. Who acts: small treat secret, you. 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 depen
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# The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad, sentence 36

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A small treat secret with a grandparent is fine; a secret about safety, or one that makes you feel bad, should always be told.

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**Who acts:** small treat secret, you · **What happens:** be, make, feel, tell · **To what, where:** secret · **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 secret, you), 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:36
# text = A small treat secret with a grandparent is fine; a secret about safety, or one that makes you feel bad, should always be told.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	treat	treat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grandparent	grandparent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | a small treat secret with a grandparent |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · passive |  | a secret about safety |  |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad.lesson:36`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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