--- title: Hiding a letter from school does not hide the problem; it only hides… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: Hiding a letter from school does not hide the problem; it only hides you from help. Who acts: Hiding, problem. A sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/24/) [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/) / [Excuses and the lies that grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/) / 24 # Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 24 Hiding a letter from school does not hide the problem; it only hides you from help. **Who acts:** Hiding, problem · **What happens:** hide, not hide · **To what, where:** letter, school, problem, you, help This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (Hiding, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:24 # text = Hiding a letter from school does not hide the problem; it only hides you from help. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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): no change 1 Hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 hide hide VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | a letter | | school | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent letter=Patient from school=Beneficiary | | 2 | **not** **hide** | present · do-support | Hiding | the problem | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | | 3 | **hide** | present | problem | you | | help | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient from help=Beneficiary | 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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:24`. **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): no change. **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: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/22/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)