--- title: We should've told you sooner.» Grown-ups often hide hard things to p… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics description: We should've told you sooner.» Grown-ups often hide hard things to protect children — but children usually notice that something is wrong, and not knowing can be scarier than the truth. Who acts: We, Grown ups, children, something. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Grown ups, children, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:5 # text = We should've told you sooner.» Grown-ups often hide hard things to protect children — but children usually notice that something is wrong, and not knowing can be scarier than the truth. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 've have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ 7 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 8 » » PUNCT NFP _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 9 Grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 compound _ _ 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 11 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 often often ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:acl 18 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 — - PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 22 usually usually ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 notice notice VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 knowing know VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 csubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 34 cop _ _ 34 scarier scary ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 parataxis _ _ 35 than than ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | should · perfect | We | | you | | | soon *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | Grown ups | hard things | | | | often *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | | 3 | **protect** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | | children | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary | | 4 | **notice** *in a quote* | present | children | | | | | usually *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | something | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | can | knowing | | | | | than the truth; scary *property* | tree rules | 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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:5`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Lied to by someone you love, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/4/) - next →: [Lied to by someone you love, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love/)