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title: Hiding an injury so you don't get in trouble can make it much worse. — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hiding an injury so you don't get in trouble can make it much worse. Who acts: you, Hiding. A sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Getting help is not telling tales, sentence 25

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Hiding an injury so you don't get in trouble can make it much worse.

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**Who acts:** you, Hiding · **What happens:** hide, not get, make · **To what, where:** injury, trouble

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting help is not telling tales» 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 (you, Hiding), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:25
# text = Hiding an injury so you don't get in trouble can make it much worse.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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	12	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | a injury |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **get** | present · do-support | you |  |  | trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | can | Hiding | injury |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:25`.

**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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