Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 15

Saying "it was an accident" when it was on purpose is a lie; owning up to hurting someone is braver than pretending.

Who acts: win, it, owning · What happens: say, be, own up, hurt, pretend · To what, where: accident, lie, purpose, someone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (win, it, owning), 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	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lie	csubj
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 accident	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 accident	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accident	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 accident	det
6	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	ccomp
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 accident	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lie	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lie	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 purpose	case
12	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lie	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lie	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lie	det
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 owning	punct
17	owning	own	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 braver	csubj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 owning	compound:prt
19	to	to	SCONJ	_	20 hurting	mark
20	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 owning	advcl
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 hurting	obj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 braver	cop
23	braver	braver	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 lie	parataxis
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	25 pretending	mark
25	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 braver	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	win	a accident			tree rules
3	is a	past	it	a lie	purpose		tree rules
4	own up	gerund					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
5	hurt	gerund		someone			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient
6	is	present	owning			braver property	tree rules
7	pretend	gerund	owning not said here				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:017-old-guilt-secrets-that-grow-and-how-to-let-them-go.lesson:15.

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, 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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