--- title: Saying "it was an accident" when it was on purpose is a lie; owning… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: Saying "it was an accident" when it was on purpose is a lie; owning up to hurting someone is braver than pretending. Who acts: win, it, owning. 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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 (win, it, owning), 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:15 # text = Saying "it was an accident" when it was on purpose is a lie; owning up to hurting someone is braver than pretending. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 csubj _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 ccomp _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 owning own VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 csubj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 to to SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 hurting hurt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 21 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 obj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 braver braver ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 24 than than SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 25 pretending pretend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 advcl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | win | a accident | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | past | it | a lie | | purpose | | | tree rules | | 4 | **own up** | gerund | | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **hurt** | gerund | | someone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient | | 6 | **is** | present | owning | | | | | braver *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **pretend** | gerund | owning *not said here* | | | | | | 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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:15`. **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, 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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