--- title: If you break something, tell an adult straight away and say sorry; a… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics description: If you break something, tell an adult straight away and say sorry; adults are usually less upset about honesty than about lies. Who acts: you, adults. 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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 (you, 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:20 # text = If you break something, tell an adult straight away and say sorry; 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): R5-strong ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 4 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 straight straight ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 13 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 15 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 usually usually ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 upset upset ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 honesty honesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: command - act: request - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=imp | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | something | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | adults | | | | | about honesty; than lies; less, upset *property* | tree rules | 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:20`. **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. **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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