--- title: Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lu… — Sorry, white lies and «because I said so» · tree and pragmatics description: Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper. Who acts: Vivid example. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 2 Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper. **Who acts:** Vivid example · **What happens:** hand · **To what, where:** lumpy orange jumper, Mum, Christmas 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 (Vivid example), 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:2 # text = Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper. # 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 ×1 1 Vivid vivid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Auntie Auntie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 Siobhan Siobhan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 iobj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 lumpy lumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 orange orange NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **hand** | present | Vivid example | a lumpy orange jumper | Mum | Christmas in Dublin | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mum=Destination jumper=Theme | 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:2`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/1/) - next →: [Sorry, white lies and «because I said…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/)