--- title: A girl in Leeds lied to avoid trouble about a broken phone; when it… — Why people lie, and what is not a lie · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Leeds lied to avoid trouble about a broken phone; when it came out, her parents trusted her less, and she lost the phone for a month. Who acts: girl, trouble, parents. 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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 (girl, trouble, parents), 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:23 # text = A girl in Leeds lied to avoid trouble about a broken phone; when it came out, her parents trusted her less, and she lost the phone for a month. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 lied lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp 8 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 trusted trust VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | a girl in Leeds | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | a girl in Leeds *not said here* | trouble | | | | about a broken phone | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location | | 3 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **come out** | past | trouble | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **trust** | past | girl's parents | girl | | | | less *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme | | 6 | **lose** | past | girl | the phone | | | month | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=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:everyday:195-why-people-lie.lesson:23`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/22/) - next →: [Why people lie, and what is not a lie, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/195-why-people-lie/)