--- title: Hiding bad news, like a poor school report, usually makes it worse;… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: Hiding bad news, like a poor school report, usually makes it worse; most parents would rather know early than find out at parents' evening. Who acts: Hiding, most parents. 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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 (Hiding, most parents), 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:12 # text = Hiding bad news, like a poor school report, usually makes it worse; most parents would rather know early than find out at parents' evening. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Hiding hide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 2 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 usually usually ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 expl _ _ 14 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 xcomp _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 16 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 18 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 rather rather ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 21 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 than than SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | gerund | | bad news | | | | like a poor school report | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | Hiding | report | | | | bad, usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **know** | would | most parents | | | | | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **find out** | infinitive | most parents *not said here* | | | | evening | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | 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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:12`. **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): R7-rel-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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