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title: Small problems that are hidden can grow into big ones. — Trusted adults and asking for help · tree and pragmatics
description: Small problems that are hidden can grow into big ones. Who acts: Small problems. A sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Trusted adults and asking for help, sentence 19

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Small problems that are hidden can grow into big ones.

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**Who acts:** Small problems · **What happens:** hide, grow · **To what, where:** Small problems

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Trusted adults and asking for help» 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 (Small problems), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.lesson:19
# text = Small problems that are hidden can grow into big ones.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	problems	problem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:cop
5	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · passive |  | Small problems |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | can | Small problems |  |  |  |  | into big ones *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into one=Result |

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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:056-trusted-adults-and-asking-for-help.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, 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/).

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