Old guilt: secrets that grow and how to let them go, sentence 7

Lies work the same way: they snowball, because each one needs another to cover it; the earlier the truth comes out, the smaller the mess.

Who acts: Lies, one, truth · What happens: work, snowball, need, cover, come out · To what, where: same way, another, way

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 (Lies, one, truth), 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	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 snowball	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 snowball	nsubj
8	snowball	snowball	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 needs	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 needs	mark
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 needs	nsubj
13	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snowball	advcl
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 needs	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cover	mark
16	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 needs	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cover	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 comes	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 earlier	det
20	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 comes	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 truth	det
22	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 comes	nsubj
23	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mess	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 comes	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 smaller	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 smaller	det
27	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 mess	amod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mess	det
29	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	parataxis
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 work	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	Lies	the same way		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent way=Material
2	snowball	present	Lies = lie			tree rules
3	need	present	each one	another		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot another=Theme
4	cover	to-infinitive	each one not said here	way		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
5	come out	present	the truth		early property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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: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): R6-punct-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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