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title: When a secret is not dangerous, it is not ours to share; when it is… — When it was my fault: owning up and making it ri… · tree and pragmatics
description: When a secret is not dangerous, it is not ours to share; when it is about someone being hurt or in danger, telling a trusted adult is right. Who acts: secret, it, more, telling. A sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» of the reflection course of Mova's primary 
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# When it was my fault: owning up and making it right, sentence 14

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When a secret is not dangerous, it is not ours to share; when it is about someone being hurt or in danger, telling a trusted adult is right.

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**Who acts:** secret, it, more, telling · **What happens:** not be, share, be, hurt, tell · **To what, where:** ours, trusted adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When it was my fault: owning up and making it right» 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 (secret, it, more, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:14
# text = When a secret is not dangerous, it is not ours to share; when it is about someone being hurt or in danger, telling a trusted adult is right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=11:punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	advcl	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	trusted	trusted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **not** **is** | present | a secret |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | it | ours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | more |  |  |  |  | about someone | tree rules |
| 5 | **hurt** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | present | telling |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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:005-when-it-was-my-fault-owning-up-and-making-it-right.lesson:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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