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title: You don't owe anyone an explanation, but you don't need a lie either… — Hiding it from friends: being skint at school · tree and pragmatics
description: You don't owe anyone an explanation, but you don't need a lie either: «I've got these ones» is enough. Who acts: You, I. A sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Hiding it from friends: being skint at school, sentence 4

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You don't owe anyone an explanation, but you don't need a lie either: «I've got these ones» is enough.

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** not owe, not need, get, be · **To what, where:** explanation, anyone, lie, ones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiding it from friends: being skint at school» 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, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:4
# text = You don't owe anyone an explanation, but you don't need a lie either: «I've got these ones» is enough.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	either	either	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
18	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	csubj	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **owe** | present · do-support | You | a explanation | anyone |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Goal explanation=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | you | a lie |  |  |  | either *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | this ones |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | enough *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:489-hiding-it-from-friends-being-skint-at-school.lesson:4`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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