--- title: A safe secret is like a surprise party; an unsafe secret is one wher… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics description: A safe secret is like a surprise party; an unsafe secret is one where someone is being hurt, and unsafe secrets must be told to a trusted adult even if you promised not to. Who acts: safe secret, unsafe secret, you. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/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/) / [Reflection](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/) / [Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/) / 12 # Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 12 A safe secret is like a surprise party; an unsafe secret is one where someone is being hurt, and unsafe secrets must be told to a trusted adult even if you promised not to. **Who acts:** safe secret, unsafe secret, you · **What happens:** be, hurt, tell, trust, not promise · **To what, where:** one, someone, unsafe secrets, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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 (safe secret, unsafe secret, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:12 # text = A safe secret is like a surprise party; an unsafe secret is one where someone is being hurt, and unsafe secrets must be told to a trusted adult even if you promised not to. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 party party NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 unsafe unsafe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 15 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 19 advmod _ _ 16 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 unsafe unsafe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 35 fixed _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a safe secret | | | | | like a surprise party | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | a unsafe secret | one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive | | unsafe secrets | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/11/) - next →: [Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/16-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean/)