--- title: Not knowing is scarier than the truth, so ask your parents what's ha… — A new baby · tree and pragmatics description: Not knowing is scarier than the truth, so ask your parents what's happening. Who acts: knowing. A sentence of the lesson «A new baby» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [A new baby](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/) / 19 # A new baby, sentence 19 Not knowing is scarier than the truth, so ask your parents what's happening. **Who acts:** knowing · **What happens:** not know, be, ask, happen · **To what, where:** parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «A new baby» 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 (knowing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:504-a-new-baby.lesson:19 # text = Not knowing is scarier than the truth, so ask your parents what's happening. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 504-a-new-baby.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 ×1 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 2 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 csubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 scarier scary ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 15 nsubj _ _ 14 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 happening happen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 ccomp _ _ 16 . . 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 | **not** **know** | gerund | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **is** | present | knowing | | | | | than the truth; scary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | your parents | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **happen** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:504-a-new-baby.lesson:19`. **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 ×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: [A new baby, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/18/) - next →: [A new baby, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/504-a-new-baby/)