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title: Surprises and secrets are different: a surprise, like a birthday pre… — My body belongs to me · tree and pragmatics
description: Surprises and secrets are different: a surprise, like a birthday present, is happy and is told soon, while a secret that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable is a secret you should never keep. Who acts: Surprises, secret, you. A sentence of the lesson «My body belongs to me» of the everyday cours
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# My body belongs to me, sentence 2

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Surprises and secrets are different: a surprise, like a birthday present, is happy and is told soon, while a secret that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable is a secret you should never keep.

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**Who acts:** Surprises, secret, you · **What happens:** be, tell, make, feel, not keep · **To what, where:** you, secret · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «My body belongs to me» 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 (Surprises, secret, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:057-my-body-belongs-to-me.lesson:2
# text = Surprises and secrets are different: a surprise, like a birthday present, is happy and is told soon, while a secret that makes you feel worried or uncomfortable is a secret you should never keep.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 057-my-body-belongs-to-me.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	Surprises	surprise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	worried	worried	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	advcl	_	_
35	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | Surprises and secrets |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like a birthday present; happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Surprises and secrets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **make** | present | a secret | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | worried *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is a** | present | a secret | a secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **keep** | should | you | a secret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme |

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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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**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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