--- title: A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant… — Thinking cleverly about people · tree and pragmatics description: A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant to be kept forever. Who acts: surprise. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/12/) [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/) / [Thinking cleverly about people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/) / 12 # Thinking cleverly about people, sentence 12 A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant to be kept forever. **Who acts:** surprise · **What happens:** end, make, mean, keep · **To what, where:** someone, bad secret This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking cleverly about people» 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 (surprise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:12 # text = A surprise ends soon and makes someone happy; a bad secret is meant to be kept forever. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 060-reasoning-about-people.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 obj _ _ 8 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:aux 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 xcomp _ _ 18 forever forever ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | a surprise | | | | | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **make** | present | a surprise *not said here* | someone | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset someone=Product | | 3 | **mean** | present · passive | | a bad secret | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | | | | | | forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» | 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:060-reasoning-about-people.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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/). - ← previous: [Thinking cleverly about people, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/11/) - next →: [Thinking cleverly about people, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/60-reasoning-about-people/)