--- title: "Come clean" means to tell the truth about something you hid; tellin… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics description: "Come clean" means to tell the truth about something you hid; telling the truth late is still better than never. Who acts: truth, you, telling. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, you, 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:7 # text = "Come clean" means to tell the truth about something you hid; telling the truth late is still 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 nsubj _ _ 3 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 nmod _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 csubj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 late late ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 still still ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 conj _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 21 obl _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | clean *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the truth | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hide** | past | you | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the truth | | | | | late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | telling | | | | still | good *property* | tree rules | 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:7`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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