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title: Some things must never be kept secret: if a friend says they wish th… — Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away · tree and pragmatics
description: Some things must never be kept secret: if a friend says they wish they weren't here, or you find out a friend is hurting themselves, tell a trusted adult straight away, even if they asked you not to; you can also call a helpline. Who acts: friend, things, you. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help:
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# Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away, sentence 7

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Some things must never be kept secret: if a friend says they wish they weren't here, or you find out a friend is hurting themselves, tell a trusted adult straight away, even if they asked you not to; you can also call a helpline.

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**Who acts:** friend, things, you · **What happens:** not keep, say, wish, not be, find out, hurt · **To what, where:** things, trusted adult, you, helpline · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help: when sadness or worry won't go away» 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 (friend, things, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.lesson:7
# text = Some things must never be kept secret: if a friend says they wish they weren't here, or you find out a friend is hurting themselves, tell a trusted adult straight away, even if they asked you not to; you can also call a helpline.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	ccomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	hurting	hurt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:xcomp
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:parataxis
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	fixed	_	_
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	also	also	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	helpline	helpline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | must · passive |  | some things |  |  |  | secret *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wish** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **find out** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hurt** | present · progressive | a friend | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Patient |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | a friend *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 8 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | things *= thing* |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 9 | **call** | can | you | a helpline |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient |

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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:029-getting-help-when-sadness-or-worry-wont-go-away.lesson:7`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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