--- title: Owning up early would have kept the trouble small. — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up early would have kept the trouble small. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Why people lie, and what is not a lie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/) / 7 # Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 7 Owning up early would have kept the trouble small. **Who acts:** Owning · **What happens:** own up, keep · **To what, where:** trouble 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:7 # text = Owning up early would have kept the trouble small. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod 10 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | 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 | **keep** | would · perfect | Owning | the trouble | | | | small *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | 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. **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:7`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/6/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)