--- title: A girl in Leeds told her friend her new haircut looked fine when the… — White lies and kind silence · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Leeds told her friend her new haircut looked fine when the friend asked, even though she did not love it; the friend was happy, and nothing bad came of a kind word. Who acts: girl, new haircut, friend, nothing. 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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, new haircut, friend, nothing), 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:22 # text = A girl in Leeds told her friend her new haircut looked fine when the friend asked, even though she did not love it; the friend was happy, and nothing bad came of a kind word. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 haircut haircut NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 12 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 even even ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 nsubj _ _ 33 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 34 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Leeds | | girl's friend | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | past | girl's new haircut | | | | | fine *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the friend | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **love** | past · do-support | girl | friend | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | the friend | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | nothing | | | | | of a kind word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of word=Initial\_Location | 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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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: [White lies and kind silence, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/21/) - next →: [White lies and kind silence, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/)