---
title: Owning up yourself, before you are caught, usually makes the trouble… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Owning up yourself, before you are caught, usually makes the trouble smaller and the trust come back faster. Who acts: Owning, trust. A sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Little lies at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/) / 21

# Little lies at home, sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Owning up yourself, before you are caught, usually makes the trouble smaller and the trust come back faster.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Owning, trust · **What happens:** own up, catch, make, come back · **To what, where:** yourself, you, trouble

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» 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, trust), 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:21
# text = Owning up yourself, before you are caught, usually makes the trouble smaller and the trust come back faster.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own up** | gerund |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | present · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | Owning | the trouble |  |  |  | small, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product |
| 4 | **come back** | present | the trust |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:21`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Little lies at home, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/20/)
- next →: [Little lies at home, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/22/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)