Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 12

Hiding bad news, like a poor school report, usually makes it worse; most parents would rather know early than find out at parents' evening.

Who acts: Hiding, most parents · What happens: hide, make, know, find out · To what, where: bad news, report

This is a sentence of the lesson «Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go» 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 (Hiding, most parents), 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	12 makes	csubj
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 news	amod
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hiding	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 report	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 report	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 report	amod
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 report	compound
9	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hiding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 report	punct
11	usually	usually	ADV	_	12 makes	advmod
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 makes	expl
14	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 makes	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 parents	amod
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 know	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	rather	rather	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 makes	parataxis
21	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 know	advmod
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 know	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 evening	case
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 evening	nmod:poss
27	'	's	PART	_	26 parents	case
28	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund		bad news		like a poor school report	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Patient
2	make	present	Hiding	report		bad, usually property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	know	would	most parents			early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	find out	infinitive	most parents not said here		evening		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:12.

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): 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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