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title: At first he felt clever, then sick whenever money came up, especiall… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: At first he felt clever, then sick whenever money came up, especially when Mum said "we can't afford it"; getting away with it felt worse than being caught, because he carried it alone, and the weight did not fade by itself. Who acts: Leo, money, Mum, we. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody fou
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 3

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At first he felt clever, then sick whenever money came up, especially when Mum said "we can't afford it"; getting away with it felt worse than being caught, because he carried it alone, and the weight did not fade by itself.

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**Who acts:** Leo, money, Mum, we, getting, weight · **What happens:** feel, come up, say, not afford, get away, catch · **To what, where:** money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Leo, money, Mum, we), 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:3
# text = At first he felt clever, then sick whenever money came up, especially when Mum said "we can't afford it"; getting away with it felt worse than being caught, because he carried it alone, and the weight did not fade by itself.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
10	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl:relcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
26	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	csubj	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
30	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
32	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	being	be	AUX	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
45	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	fade	fade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	47	obl	_	_
50	.	.	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 | **feel** | past | Leo |  |  |  |  | clever, sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come up** | past | money |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **afford** *in a quote* | can | we | money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **get away** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with money; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **feel** | past | getting |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **catch** | gerund · passive | getting *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
| 8 | **carry** | past | Leo | money |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **fade** | past · do-support | the weight |  |  |  |  | by money | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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.

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