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title: Things heard half through a door are often misunderstood and can be… — Peeking at presents and secrets · tree and pragmatics
description: Things heard half through a door are often misunderstood and can be more frightening than the truth. Who acts: Things. A sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peeking at presents and secrets, sentence 18

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Things heard half through a door are often misunderstood and can be more frightening than the truth.

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**Who acts:** Things · **What happens:** hear, misunderstand, be · **To what, where:** half, door, Things

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Peeking at presents and secrets» 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 (Things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:18
# text = Things heard half through a door are often misunderstood and can be more frightening than the truth.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.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	Things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	2	obj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	misunderstood	misunderstand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | Things *not said here* | half |  | a door |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer half=Stimulus |
| 2 | **misunderstand** | present · passive |  | Things |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  |  | than the truth; frightening *property* | tree rules |

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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:356-peeking-at-presents-diaries-and-letters.lesson:18`.

**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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