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title: Hiding a fear or a pain usually makes the problem bigger; telling so… — Anger and fears · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiding a fear or a pain usually makes the problem bigger; telling someone early makes it easier to fix. Who acts: Hiding, telling. A sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Anger and fears, sentence 21

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Hiding a fear or a pain usually makes the problem bigger; telling someone early makes it easier to fix.

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**Who acts:** Hiding, telling · **What happens:** hide, make, tell, fix · **To what, where:** fear, problem, someone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Anger and fears» 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 (Hiding, telling), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:21
# text = Hiding a fear or a pain usually makes the problem bigger; telling someone early makes it easier to fix.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 212-anger-and-fears.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
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	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
13	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj
14	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	obj	_	_
15	early	early	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
21	.	.	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 |  | a fear or a pain |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | Hiding | the problem |  |  |  | big, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset problem=Product |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | someone |  |  | early *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** | present | telling | problem |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 5 | **fix** | to-infinitive | telling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:212-anger-and-fears.lesson:21`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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