--- title: A secret can grow heavier over time because it has nowhere to go; te… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: A secret can grow heavier over time because it has nowhere to go; telling a trusted adult usually makes it much smaller within weeks. Who acts: secret, telling. 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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, telling), 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:9 # text = A secret can grow heavier over time because it has nowhere to go; telling a trusted adult usually makes it much smaller within weeks. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 secret secret NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 heavier heavy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 xcomp _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 nowhere nowhere ADV RB PronType=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:xcomp 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 trusted trust VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ _ 18 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 much much ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 24 within within ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | can | a secret | | | | time | heavy *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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | a trusted adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 5 | **trust** | participle | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **make** | present | telling | adult | | | | small, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:9`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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