Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 24
Hiding a letter from school does not hide the problem; it only hides you from help.
Who acts: Hiding, problem · What happens: hide, not hide · To what, where: letter, school, problem, you, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday 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 (Hiding, problem), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 hide | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hiding | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 school | case |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 letter | nmod |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hide | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 hide | advmod |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 problem | det |
| 10 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hide | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hides | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hides | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 hides | advmod |
| 14 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hide | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hides | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hides | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | gerund | a letter | school | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent letter=Patient from school=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not hide | present · do-support | Hiding | the problem | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | present | problem | you | help | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent you=Patient from help=Beneficiary |
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, 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:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:24.
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): no change. 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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