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title: If yes, it's a surprise; if it hides harm, tell a trusted adult, eve… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: If yes, it's a surprise; if it hides harm, tell a trusted adult, even if you promised. Who acts: test, you. 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 every clause.
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 5

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If yes, it's a surprise; if it hides harm, tell a trusted adult, even if you promised.

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**Who acts:** test, you · **What happens:** be, hide, tell, trust, promise · **To what, where:** surprise, harm, trusted adult · **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 (test, you), 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:5
# text = If yes, it's a surprise; if it hides harm, tell a trusted adult, even if you promised.
# 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): no change
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 a** | present | test | a surprise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | test | harm |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | test *not said here* |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **trust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:087-good-secrets-and-bad-secrets.lesson:5`.

**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): no change. **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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