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title: Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller than being caught… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller than being caught later. Who acts: Owning. A sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 10

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Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller than being caught later.

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**Who acts:** Owning · **What happens:** own up, make, catch · **To what, where:** trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» 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 (Owning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:10
# text = Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller than being caught later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 195-why-people-lie.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
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
12	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | early *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **make** | present | Owning | the trouble |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund · passive | Owning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |

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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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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