--- title: Grown-ups have a set of everyday phrases that do not always mean exa… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups have a set of everyday phrases that do not always mean exactly what the words say: "We'll see", "Because I said so", "We must do this again soon". Who acts: Grown ups, everyday phrases, words, We. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grown ups, everyday phrases, words, We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:0 # text = Grown-ups have a set of everyday phrases that do not always mean exactly what the words say: "We'll see", "Because I said so", "We must do this again soon". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson # annotation = 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 everyday everyday ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 phrases phrase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 11 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 always always ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 19 obj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 28 Because because SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 so so ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 34 " " PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 35 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 38 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 obj _ _ 39 again again ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 40 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | Grown ups | a set of everyday phrases | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient | | 3 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | everyday phrases | | | | | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the words | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | future | We | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the words *= word* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | must | We | this | | | again | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:0`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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