--- title: "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); refusing to… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics description: "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); refusing to answer is different from lying. Who acts: trustworthy person, refusing. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / [Good secrets and bad secrets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/) / 14 # Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 14 "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); refusing to answer is different from lying. **Who acts:** trustworthy person, refusing · **What happens:** keep, refuse, not answer, be, lie · **To what, where:** secret · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (trustworthy person, refusing), 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:14 # text = "A trustworthy person keeps a secret" (Proverbs 11:13); refusing to answer is different from lying. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×4 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 _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Proverbs Proverbs PROPN NNPS _ 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 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 , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 refusing refuse VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 csubj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 from from SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 20 lying lie VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **refuse** | gerund | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | refusing | | | | | different *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lie** | gerund | refusing *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:14`. **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 ×4. **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/). - ← previous: [Good secrets and bad secrets, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/13/) - next →: [Good secrets and bad secrets, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/87-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets/)