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title: Hiding mess, like dirty socks under the bed, makes it grow, not vani… — Chores you skipped · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiding mess, like dirty socks under the bed, makes it grow, not vanish. Who acts: mess. A sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Chores you skipped, sentence 16

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Hiding mess, like dirty socks under the bed, makes it grow, not vanish.

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**Who acts:** mess · **What happens:** hide, make, grow, not vanish · **To what, where:** mess

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chores you skipped» 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 (mess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:16
# text = Hiding mess, like dirty socks under the bed, makes it grow, not vanish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 350-chores-you-skipped.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	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **hide** | gerund |  | mess |  |  |  | like dirty socks under the bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present |  | mess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | infinitive | mess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **vanish** | infinitive | mess *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:350-chores-you-skipped.lesson:16`.

**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/).

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