--- title: A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; p… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy. Who acts: parent, parents, drawing, your. A sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Adult life](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/) / [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/) / 13 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 13 A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy. **Who acts:** parent, parents, drawing, your · **What happens:** show, be, show off, make, draw · **To what, where:** drawing, everyone, children, parents This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life 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 (parent, parents, drawing, your), 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:13 # text = A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 showing show VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 drawing drawing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obl _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 proud proud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obl 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | gerund | a parent *not said here* | your drawing | everyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drawing=Topic to everyone=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | a parent | | | | | of you; proud *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **show off** | present | parents | | parents's children | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | | 4 | **make** | present | drawing | parents *= parent* | | | | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | | 5 | **draw** | | your | | | | | | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=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](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:13`. **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 ×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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