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title: Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller, and hiding usuall… — Good pressure, good and bad secrets, and owning up · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller, and hiding usually makes it bigger. Who acts: Owning. 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 29

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Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller, and hiding usually makes it bigger.

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**Who acts:** Owning · **What happens:** own up, make, hide · **To what, where:** trouble

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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 (Owning), 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:29
# text = Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller, and hiding usually makes it bigger.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	nsubj	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | 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 | **make** | present | Owning | the trouble |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | trouble |  |  |  | big, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:285-good-secrets-bad-secrets-and-owning-up.lesson:29`.

**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 ×2, 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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