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title: Guilt about a hidden wrong usually grows each day it is not fixed; o… — Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and comin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Guilt about a hidden wrong usually grows each day it is not fixed; owning up is scary for a moment and then usually brings relief. Who acts: Guilt, day, owning. A sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school with i
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# Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean, sentence 10

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Guilt about a hidden wrong usually grows each day it is not fixed; owning up is scary for a moment and then usually brings relief.

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**Who acts:** Guilt, day, owning · **What happens:** grow, not fix, own up, be, bring · **To what, where:** guilt, relief

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Things I'm ashamed of: crowds, cruelty and coming clean» 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, day, owning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:10
# text = Guilt about a hidden wrong usually grows each day it is not fixed; owning up is scary for a moment and then usually brings relief.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Guilt	guilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	owning	own	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Guilt about a hidden wrong |  |  |  | day | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fix** | present · passive | each day *not said here* | guilt |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **own up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is** | present | owning |  |  |  | moment | scary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | present | owning *not said here* | relief |  |  | then | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent relief=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:016-things-im-ashamed-of-crowds-cruelty-and-coming-clean.lesson:10`.

**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): 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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