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title: A secret that keeps a friend in danger, like stopping eating, must b… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: A secret that keeps a friend in danger, like stopping eating, must be told to a trusted adult; a friend may be cross at first and grateful later. Who acts: secret, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 11

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A secret that keeps a friend in danger, like stopping eating, must be told to a trusted adult; a friend may be cross at first and grateful later.

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**Who acts:** secret, friend · **What happens:** keep, stop, tell, be · **To what, where:** friend, danger, eating, secret, trusted adult, first · **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 (secret, friend), 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:11
# text = A secret that keeps a friend in danger, like stopping eating, must be told to a trusted adult; a friend may be cross at first and grateful later.
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
11	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl
12	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
20	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	cross	cross	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
31	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | **keep** | present | a secret | a friend |  | danger |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent friend=Theme in danger=Location |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | a secret *not said here* | eating |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality eating=Eventuality |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | must · passive |  | a secret | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | may | a friend |  |  | first |  | cross, late *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | a friend *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

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

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