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title: When he finally came clean, crying, Mum was upset, then hugged him a… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: When he finally came clean, crying, Mum was upset, then hugged him and said "thank you for telling me", and he paid some of it back from his birthday money; telling the truth late was still far better than never. Who acts: weight, Mum, truth, telling. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found o
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 4

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When he finally came clean, crying, Mum was upset, then hugged him and said "thank you for telling me", and he paid some of it back from his birthday money; telling the truth late was still far better than never.

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**Who acts:** weight, Mum, truth, telling · **What happens:** come, cry, be, hug, say, thank · **To what, where:** weight, you, Mum, some · **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 (weight, Mum, truth, telling), 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:4
# text = When he finally came clean, crying, Mum was upset, then hugged him and said "thank you for telling me", and he paid some of it back from his birthday money; telling the truth late was still far better than never.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	hugged	hug	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
38	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	csubj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	still	still	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
46	than	than	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	45	obl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: character
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | weight |  |  |  |  | clean, finally *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | weight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mum |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hug** | past | Mum *not said here* | weight |  |  | then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 8 | **pay** | past | weight | some |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Asset |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the truth |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | past | telling |  |  |  | still | far, good *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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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