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title: For a child today this means: loyalty is good, but not loyalty to wr… — Dilemmas about truth and friendship · tree and pragmatics
description: For a child today this means: loyalty is good, but not loyalty to wrongdoing; secrets that put someone in danger must be told to a trusted adult; and a real friend never asks you to lie for them. Who acts: this, loyalty, secrets, real friend. A sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friend
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# Dilemmas about truth and friendship, sentence 5

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For a child today this means: loyalty is good, but not loyalty to wrongdoing; secrets that put someone in danger must be told to a trusted adult; and a real friend never asks you to lie for them.

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**Who acts:** this, loyalty, secrets, real friend · **What happens:** mean, be, put, tell, trust, not ask · **To what, where:** someone, danger, secrets, trusted adult, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dilemmas about truth and friendship» of the religion ethics 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 (this, loyalty, secrets, real friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.lesson:5
# text = For a child today this means: loyalty is good, but not loyalty to wrongdoing; secrets that put someone in danger must be told to a trusted adult; and a real friend never asks you to lie for them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 041-dilemmas-about-truth-and-friendship.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
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wrongdoing	wrongdoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:appos
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **mean** | present | this |  |  |  |  | for a child  today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for child=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | loyalty |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | past | secrets | someone |  | danger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent someone=Theme in danger=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive |  | secrets | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **ask** *speech: ask* | present | a real friend |  | you |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **lie** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a real friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for secrets *= secret* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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. **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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