The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 7

"Come clean" means to tell the truth about something you hid; telling the truth late is still better than never.

Who acts: truth, you, telling · What happens: come, mean, tell, hide, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (truth, you, telling), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 means	nsubj
3	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Come	xcomp
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 something	case
11	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 truth	nmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hid	nsubj
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 something	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 telling	punct
15	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 better	csubj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 truth	det
17	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 telling	obj
18	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 telling	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 better	cop
20	still	still	ADV	_	21 better	advmod
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 means	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	23 never	case
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 better	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	infinitive			clean property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	the truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hide	past	you			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	the truth		late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	telling	still	good 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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): 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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