--- title: Owning up early is easier than later: a lost jacket is easier to fin… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics description: Owning up early is easier than later: a lost jacket is easier to find on the first day, and a library book is easier to replace before the fines grow. Who acts: Owning, lost jacket, library book, fines. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owning, lost jacket, library book, fines), 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:12 # text = Owning up early is easier than later: a lost jacket is easier to find on the first day, and a library book is easier to replace before the fines grow. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Owning own VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 3 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 jacket jacket NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 parataxis _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 amod _ _ 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 conj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 fines fine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is** | present | Owning | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | a lost jacket | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | a lost jacket *not said here* | | | | day | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | a library book | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **replace** | to-infinitive | a library book *not said here* | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **grow** | present | the fines | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-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. 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