--- title: A boy in Ohio lied that he was at a friend's house when he went to t… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio lied that he was at a friend's house when he went to the lake; he fell in and nobody knew where to look for him, and it took hours to find him cold and scared. Who acts: boy, nobody. 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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, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:22 # text = A boy in Ohio lied that he was at a friend's house when he went to the lake; he fell in and nobody knew where to look for him, and it took hours to find him cold and scared. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 195-why-people-lie.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio 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 _ 13 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 's 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 ccomp _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 in in ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 26 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 ccomp _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 expl _ _ 35 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 36 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:advcl 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 conj _ _ 43 . . 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 Ohio | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | boy | | | a friend's house | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | past | boy | | | the lake | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **fall in** | past | boy | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **know** | past | nobody | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | for boy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme | | 7 | **take** | past | a boy in Ohio *not said here* | lake | | | hour | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **find** | to-infinitive | | boy | | | | cold *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | 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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:22`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/21/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)