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title: Breaking a friend's secret to look good yourself is called being two… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics
description: Breaking a friend's secret to look good yourself is called being two-faced; a proper sorry can slowly rebuild trust. Who acts: Breaking, proper sorry. 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 
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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 20

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Breaking a friend's secret to look good yourself is called being two-faced; a proper sorry can slowly rebuild trust.

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**Who acts:** Breaking, proper sorry · **What happens:** break, look, call, be, rebuild · **To what, where:** secret, yourself, trust · **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 (Breaking, proper sorry), 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:20
# text = Breaking a friend's secret to look good yourself is called being two-faced; a proper sorry can slowly rebuild trust.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj:pass	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	amod	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
15	faced	face	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sorry	sorry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj
23	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	.	.	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 | **break** | gerund |  | a friend's secret |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer secret=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | Breaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | Breaking *not said here* |  |  |  |  | face *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **rebuild** | can | a proper sorry | trust |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Result |

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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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:20`.

**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): 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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