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title: The vicar says: "A good secret serves love and will gladly be reveal… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: The vicar says: "A good secret serves love and will gladly be revealed; a bad secret serves harm and fears the light", and Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6). Who acts: vicar, good secret, bad secret, Jesus. A sentence of the lesson «Good secrets and bad secrets» of the re
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 6

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The vicar says: "A good secret serves love and will gladly be revealed; a bad secret serves harm and fears the light", and Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6).

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**Who acts:** vicar, good secret, bad secret, Jesus · **What happens:** say, serve, reveal, fear, speak, protect · **To what, where:** love, harm, light, children · **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 (vicar, good secret, bad secret, Jesus), 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:6
# text = The vicar says: "A good secret serves love and will gladly be revealed; a bad secret serves harm and fears the light", and Jesus spoke strongly about protecting children (Matthew 18:6).
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vicar	vicar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	serves	serve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fears	fear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
33	protecting	protect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:obl
34	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	Matthew	Matthew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	18:6	18:6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	flat	_	_
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the vicar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **serve** *in a quote* | present | a good secret | love |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Attribute |
| 3 | **reveal** *in a quote* | future · passive | a good secret *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **serve** *in a quote* | present | a bad secret | harm |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Attribute |
| 5 | **fear** *in a quote* | present | a bad secret *not said here* | the light |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus |
| 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Jesus |  |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **protect** | gerund | Jesus *not said here* |  | children |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary |

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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 ×2. **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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