--- title: A boy in Texas lied that he had done his homework for weeks; when th… — Growing up, honesty and manners · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas lied that he had done his homework for weeks; when the test came he could not do any of it and had to stay behind for extra classes. Who acts: boy, test. 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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 (boy, test), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:14 # text = A boy in Texas lied that he had done his homework for weeks; when the test came he could not do any of it and had to stay behind for extra classes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 lied lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 22 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 behind behind ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 classes class NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | a boy in Texas | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **do** | past · perfect | boy | boy's homework | | | week | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality | | 3 | **come** | past | the test | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **do** | could | test | any | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | past | test *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | to-infinitive | test *not said here* | | | | | for extra classes; behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:14`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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: [Growing up, honesty and manners, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/13/) - next →: [Growing up, honesty and manners, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners/)