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title: Hiding that you do not understand schoolwork makes the gaps bigger a… — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiding that you do not understand schoolwork makes the gaps bigger and harder to fix later. Who acts: you, Hiding, gaps. A sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Growing up, honesty and manners, sentence 17

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Hiding that you do not understand schoolwork makes the gaps bigger and harder to fix later.

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**Who acts:** you, Hiding, gaps · **What happens:** hide, not understand, make, fix · **To what, where:** schoolwork, gaps

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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 (you, Hiding, gaps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:17
# text = Hiding that you do not understand schoolwork makes the gaps bigger and harder to fix later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.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	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
7	schoolwork	schoolwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gaps	gap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | you | schoolwork |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer schoolwork=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | present | Hiding | the gaps |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gap=Product |
| 4 | **fix** | to-infinitive | the gaps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:17`.

**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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