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title: A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the fr… — Lies that do real harm · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents. Who acts: girl, friend. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school wit
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# Lies that do real harm, sentence 19

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A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents.

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**Who acts:** girl, friend · **What happens:** spread, make up, be, not come, have, face · **To what, where:** made story, school, head teacher

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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 (girl, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:19
# text = A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 197-harmful-lies.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=7:compound
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	online	online	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | a girl in Leeds | a made story |  |  |  | about a friend; online *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme about friend=Destination |
| 2 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the friend |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **come** | would | girl |  |  | school |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | past | the girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **face** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  | the head teacher and girl's parents |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme teacher=Destination |

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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.

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**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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:19`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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/).

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