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title: Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults fr… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults from helping. Who acts: you, Hiding. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 3

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Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults from helping.

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**Who acts:** you, Hiding · **What happens:** hide, swallow, stop · **To what, where:** bad report, medicine, adults

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:3
# text = Hiding a bad report or a medicine you swallowed only stops adults from helping.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
14	helping	helping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9: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 |  | a bad report or a medicine |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Patient |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | you | a medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient |
| 3 | **stop** | present | Hiding | adults  helping |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality adult=Eventuality |

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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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:3`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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