--- title: A boy in Texas believed an online seller who said a game console was… — Telling when someone may be lying · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas believed an online seller who said a game console was real and cheap; he sent his birthday money and got nothing back. Who acts: boy, online seller, game console. 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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, online seller, game console), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:21 # text = A boy in Texas believed an online seller who said a game console was real and cheap; he sent his birthday money and got nothing back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.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 ×1 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 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 online online ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 seller seller NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 console console NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 25 obj _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . 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 | **believe** | past | a boy in Texas | a online seller | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seller=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a online seller | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | a game console | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | a game console *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **send** | past | boy | boy's birthday money | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 6 | **get back** | past | boy *not said here* | nothing | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | 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:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:21`. **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 ×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: [Telling when someone may be lying, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/20/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/)