--- title: Lies work the same way: they snowball, because each one needs anothe… — Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them… · tree and pragmatics description: Lies work the same way: they snowball, because each one needs another to cover it; the earlier the truth comes out, the smaller the mess. Who acts: Lies, one, truth. 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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 (Lies, one, truth), 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:7 # text = Lies work the same way: they snowball, because each one needs another to cover it; the earlier the truth comes out, the smaller the mess. # 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 1 Lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 snowball snowball VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 13 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 earlier early ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 mess mess NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Lies | the same way | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material | | 2 | **snowball** | present | Lies *= lie* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | each one | another | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot another=Theme | | 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive | each one *not said here* | way | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 5 | **come out** | present | the truth | | | | | early *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | 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:7`. **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. 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