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title: Most parents are less upset about an accident than about it being hi… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Most parents are less upset about an accident than about it being hidden; hiding makes guilt grow. Who acts: Most parents, guilt. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 13

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Most parents are less upset about an accident than about it being hidden; hiding makes guilt grow.

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**Who acts:** Most parents, guilt · **What happens:** be, hide, make, grow · **To what, where:** copying, guilt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Most parents, guilt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:13
# text = Most parents are less upset about an accident than about it being hidden; hiding makes guilt grow.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
5	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	nsubj	_	_
16	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
17	guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | present | Most parents |  |  |  |  | about a accident; less, upset *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund · passive |  | copying |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | present |  | guilt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grow** | infinitive | guilt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:13`.

**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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