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title: Any adult who asks a child to keep secrets from their parents is sho… — Good secrets and bad secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Any adult who asks a child to keep secrets from their parents is showing a warning sign; tell a trusted adult and you will not be in trouble. Who acts: adult, 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 
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# Good secrets and bad secrets, sentence 9

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Any adult who asks a child to keep secrets from their parents is showing a warning sign; tell a trusted adult and you will not be in trouble.

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**Who acts:** adult, you · **What happens:** ask, keep, show, tell, not be · **To what, where:** child, secrets, warning sign, trusted adult, trouble · **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 (adult, 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:9
# text = Any adult who asks a child to keep secrets from their parents is showing a warning sign; tell a trusted adult and you will not be in trouble.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	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	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl
9	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	trusted	trust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | any adult |  | a child |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | any adult *not said here* | secrets |  |  |  | from secret's parents | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer secret=Beneficiary from parent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **show** | present · progressive | any adult | a warning sign |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a trusted adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | future | you |  |  | trouble |  |  | 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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**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:9`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

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

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