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title: A good secret, or surprise, is happy, short and hides no harm, like… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: A good secret, or surprise, is happy, short and hides no harm, like Dad planning Mum a surprise party; a bad secret hides something that hurts someone or puts them in danger. Who acts: good secret, bad secret. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of M
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 0

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A good secret, or surprise, is happy, short and hides no harm, like Dad planning Mum a surprise party; a bad secret hides something that hurts someone or puts them in danger.

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**Who acts:** good secret, bad secret · **What happens:** be, hide, hurt, put · **To what, where:** harm, something, someone, secret, danger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» 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 (good secret, bad secret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:0
# text = A good secret, or surprise, is happy, short and hides no harm, like Dad planning Mum a surprise party; a bad secret hides something that hurts someone or puts them in danger.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	planning	planning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
29	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | a good secret or surprise |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a good secret or surprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hide** | present | a good secret or surprise *not said here* | no harm |  |  |  | like planning | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |
| 4 | **hide** | present | a bad secret | something |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 5 | **hurt** | present |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |
| 6 | **put** | present |  | secret |  | danger |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in danger=Destination |

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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): R7-rel-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.

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