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title: Guilt is the conscience working; it is a sign you know what is right… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Guilt is the conscience working; it is a sign you know what is right, not proof you are a bad person. Who acts: Guilt, conscience, you. 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
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 8

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Guilt is the conscience working; it is a sign you know what is right, not proof you are a bad person.

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**Who acts:** Guilt, conscience, you · **What happens:** be, work, know · **To what, where:** conscience, sign, bad person · **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 (Guilt, conscience, you), 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:8
# text = Guilt is the conscience working; it is a sign you know what is right, not proof you are a bad person.
# 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
1	Guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	acl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Guilt | the conscience and a sign and proof |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | gerund | the conscience and a sign and proof *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Guilt | a sign and proof |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | present | you | a sign and proof *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is a** | present | you | a bad person |  |  |  |  | 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:8`.

**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. **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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