Lied to by someone you love, sentence 5

We should've told you sooner.» Grown-ups often hide hard things to protect children — but children usually notice that something is wrong, and not knowing can be scarier than the truth.

Who acts: We, Grown ups, children, something, knowing · What happens: tell, hide, protect, notice, be, not know · To what, where: you, hard things, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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 (We, Grown ups, children, something), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
3	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 told	advmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
9	Grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ups	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ups	punct
11	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hide	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 hide	advmod
13	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
14	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 things	amod
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hide	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 protect	mark
17	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hide	advcl
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 protect	obj
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 notice	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 notice	cc
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 notice	nsubj
22	usually	usually	ADV	_	23 notice	advmod
23	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 wrong	mark
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 wrong	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 wrong	cop
27	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 notice	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 scarier	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 scarier	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 knowing	advmod
31	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 scarier	csubj
32	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 scarier	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 scarier	cop
34	scarier	scary	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 notice	parataxis
35	than	than	ADP	_	37 truth	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 truth	det
37	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 scarier	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	should · perfect	We		you	soon property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hide in a quote	present	Grown ups	hard things		often property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
3	protect in a quote	to-infinitive	Grown ups not said here		children		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary
4	notice in a quote	present	children			usually property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	is in a quote	present	something			wrong property	tree rules
6	not know in a quote	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	can	knowing			than the truth; scary property	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, 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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:5.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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