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title: A surprise is fun, short, and everyone ends up happy; Jesus told peo… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: A surprise is fun, short, and everyone ends up happy; Jesus told people to give "in secret" (Matthew 6:3-4). Who acts: surprise, everyone, Jesus. 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
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 8

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A surprise is fun, short, and everyone ends up happy; Jesus told people to give "in secret" (Matthew 6:3-4).

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**Who acts:** surprise, everyone, Jesus · **What happens:** be, end up, tell, give · **To what, where:** people, secret · **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 (surprise, everyone, 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:8
# text = A surprise is fun, short, and everyone ends up happy; Jesus told people to give "in secret" (Matthew 6:3-4).
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	fun	fun	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Matthew	matthew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	_
25	6:3-4	6:3-4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	flat	_	_
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	24	punct	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a surprise |  |  |  |  | fun *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a surprise *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **end up** | present | everyone |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jesus |  | people |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Jesus *not said here* |  |  | secret |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×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.

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

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