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title: Adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies. — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: Adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies. Who acts: Adults. A sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up, sentence 11

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Adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies.

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**Who acts:** Adults · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up» 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 (Adults), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:11
# text = Adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.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	Adults	adult	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	honesty	honesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Adults |  |  |  |  | about honesty; than lies; less, upset *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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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