--- title: Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics description: Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it. Who acts: Grandma, you. A sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday 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/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [White lies and kind silence](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/) / 2 # White lies and kind silence, sentence 2 Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it. **Who acts:** Grandma, you · **What happens:** knit, not like, ask, like · **To what, where:** jumper, you This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» of the everyday 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 (Grandma, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:2 # text = Example: Grandma knits you a jumper you do not like and asks if you like it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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 Example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 dep _ _ 2 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 3 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 knits knit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 jumper jumper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 if if SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **knit** | present | Grandma | a jumper | you | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary jumper=Product | | 2 | **not** **like** | present · do-support | you | a jumper *not said here* | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jumper=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Grandma *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | jumper | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.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: [White lies and kind silence, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/1/) - next →: [White lies and kind silence, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/)