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# Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 1

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Two years ago, in a temper, Chloe pushed her little brother off the trampoline and he chipped his tooth; she told Mum he fell, and he was too small to remember; now every time he smiles she sees the chip: "He's got that forever.

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**Who acts:** Chloe, he · **What happens:** push, chip, tell, fall, be, remember · **To what, where:** little brother, temper, tooth, Mum, chip, that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (Chloe, he), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:1
# text = Two years ago, in a temper, Chloe pushed her little brother off the trampoline and he chipped his tooth; she told Mum he fell, and he was too small to remember; now every time he smiles she sees the chip: "He's got that forever.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	chipped	chip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
25	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	iobj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	too	too	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chip	chip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
48	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	's	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	parataxis	_	_
51	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=52:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
52	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **push** | past | Chloe | Chloe's little brother |  | a temper |  | off the trampoline; ago *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brother=Theme in temper=Trajectory |
| 2 | **chip** | past | he | his tooth |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Chloe |  | Mum |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fall** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **remember** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **smile** | present | he |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **see** | present | Chloe | the chip |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | He | that |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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