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title: "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); being truste… — Keeping promises · tree and pragmatics
description: "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); being trusted to keep something safe is an honour. Who acts: trustworthy person. A sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Keeping promises, sentence 12

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"A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); being trusted to keep something safe is an honour.

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**Who acts:** trustworthy person · **What happens:** keep, trust, be · **To what, where:** secret, something, honour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Keeping promises» 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 (trustworthy person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:12
# text = "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); being trusted to keep something safe is an honour.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 086-keeping-promises.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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	trustworthy	trustworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Proverbs	Proverbs	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	11:13	11:13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nmod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	csubj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp
18	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | a trustworthy person | a secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **trust** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S» |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | something |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | a honour |  |  |  |  | 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:religion-ethics:086-keeping-promises.lesson:12`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

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

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