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title: Sneaking out at night is dangerous because nobody knows where you ar… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sneaking out at night is dangerous because nobody knows where you are if something goes wrong. Who acts: Sneaking, nobody, you, something. A sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 18

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Sneaking out at night is dangerous because nobody knows where you are if something goes wrong.

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**Who acts:** Sneaking, nobody, you, something · **What happens:** sneak out, be, know, go · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (Sneaking, nobody, you, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:18
# text = Sneaking out at night is dangerous because nobody knows where you are if something goes wrong.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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	Sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **sneak out** | gerund |  |  |  |  | night |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | Sneaking |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | present | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | something |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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): 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.

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