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title: Reading someone's private things, like a diary, breaks trust; admitt… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading someone's private things, like a diary, breaks trust; admitting it is hard but right. Who acts: Reading. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 15

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Reading someone's private things, like a diary, breaks trust; admitting it is hard but right.

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**Who acts:** Reading · **What happens:** read, break, admit, be · **To what, where:** private things, trust

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Reading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:15
# text = Reading someone's private things, like a diary, breaks trust; admitting it is hard but right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): no change
1	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
14	admitting	admit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	expl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **read** | gerund |  | someone's private things |  |  |  | like a diary | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | present | Reading | trust |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trust=Patient |
| 3 | **admit** *speech: other* | gerund | Reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | Reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | Reading *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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