--- title: A guilty conscience, like not sleeping or not looking someone in the… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: A guilty conscience, like not sleeping or not looking someone in the eye, is a sign that something needs putting right. Who acts: guilty conscience, something. 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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 (guilty conscience, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:20 # text = A guilty conscience, like not sleeping or not looking someone in the eye, is a sign that something needs putting right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 336-little-lies-at-home.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 guilty guilty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 conscience conscience NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 acl _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 11 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 19 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 20 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 21 nsubj _ _ 21 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 xcomp _ _ 23 right right ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sleep** | gerund | a guilty conscience *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **not** **look** | gerund | a guilty conscience *not said here* | someone | | the eye | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Attribute | | 3 | **is a** | present | a guilty conscience | a sign | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | something | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **put** *not said to happen* | gerund | something *not said here* | that | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal | 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:336-little-lies-at-home.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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Little lies at home, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/19/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)