--- title: A secret like that grows quietly because it has nowhere to go; the m… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: A secret like that grows quietly because it has nowhere to go; the mind keeps bringing it back because it is unfinished business, and Chloe forgets that she was seven, and seven-year-olds in a temper do things they bitterly regret. Who acts: secret, mind, Chloe, year olds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (secret, mind, Chloe, year olds), 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:4 # text = A secret like that grows quietly because it has nowhere to go; the mind keeps bringing it back because it is unfinished business, and Chloe forgets that she was seven, and seven-year-olds in a temper do things they bitterly regret. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nmod _ _ 5 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 10 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:xcomp 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 bringing bring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 unfinished unfinished ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 advcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 Chloe Chloe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 forgets forget VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 ccomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ _ 37 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ _ 39 olds old NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 temper temper NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 44 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 regret regret VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 acl:relcl _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | a secret like that | | | | | quietly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | secret | | | | | nowhere *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | present | the mind | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bring back** | gerund | the mind *not said here* | mind | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | present | secret | unfinished business | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **forget** | present | Chloe | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **is a** | past | Chloe | seven | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **do** | present | year olds in a temper | things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 10 | **regret** | present | olds *= old* | things *not said here* | | | | bitterly *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | 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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:4`. **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): R5-strong ×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. 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