--- title: A girl in Leeds believed a stranger who said her mum was in hospital… — Telling when someone may be lying · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Leeds believed a stranger who said her mum was in hospital and he would drive her there; she told a teacher first, and the teacher found out it was a lie. Who acts: girl, stranger, mum, Leeds. 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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, stranger, mum, Leeds), 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:22 # text = A girl in Leeds believed a stranger who said her mum was in hospital and he would drive her there; she told a teacher first, and the teacher found out it was a lie. # 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): R5-strong ×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 believed believe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss 11 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 23 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ _ 37 . . 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 | **believe** | past | a girl in Leeds | a stranger | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a stranger | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | girl's mum | | | hospital | | | tree rules | | 4 | **drive** | would | Leeds | girl | | there | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | girl | | a teacher | | | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 6 | **find out** | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | past | teacher | a lie | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Telling when someone may be lying, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/21/) - next →: [Telling when someone may be lying, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/)