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title: If an adult ever says "this is our little secret, don't tell your pa… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: If an adult ever says "this is our little secret, don't tell your parents", like a coach handing Ollie an old phone, that is a warning sign: tell your parents or another trusted adult straight away, and you will not be in trouble. Who acts: adult, this, little secret, coach. A sentence of the lesson
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 1

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If an adult ever says "this is our little secret, don't tell your parents", like a coach handing Ollie an old phone, that is a warning sign: tell your parents or another trusted adult straight away, and you will not be in trouble.

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**Who acts:** adult, this, little secret, coach, that, you · **What happens:** say, be, not tell, hand, tell, trust · **To what, where:** little secret, parents, old phone, Ollie, warning sign, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (adult, this, little secret, coach), 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:1
# text = If an adult ever says "this is our little secret, don't tell your parents", like a coach handing Ollie an old phone, that is a warning sign: tell your parents or another trusted adult straight away, and you will not be in trouble.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:iobj
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:obj
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
35	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:acl
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	iobj	_	_
38	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
40	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
42	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
47	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	cop	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5: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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a adult |  |  |  | ever |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | this | our little secret |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | our little secret *not said here* |  | your parents |  |  | like a coach | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 4 | **hand** | gerund | a coach *not said here* | a old phone | Ollie |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ollie=Destination phone=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | that | a warning sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | your parents or another trusted adult |  |  | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
| 7 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **is** | future | you |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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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**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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