--- title: A girl in Dublin told the nurse she had fallen off a bike when she h… — Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in gam… · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Dublin told the nurse she had fallen off a bike when she had really swallowed a button battery; the right treatment was delayed and the battery burned her throat. Who acts: girl, battery. 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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, battery), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:21 # text = A girl in Dublin told the nurse she had fallen off a bike when she had really swallowed a button battery; the right treatment was delayed and the battery burned her throat. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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, R8-pos-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 Dublin Dublin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 11 off off ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 really really ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 swallowed swallow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 button button NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 treatment treatment NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:cop 27 delayed delay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 battery battery NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 32 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . 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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a girl in Dublin | the nurse | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent nurse=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **fall off** | past · perfect | girl | a bike | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bike=Extent | | 3 | **swallow** | past · perfect | girl | a button battery | | | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battery=Patient | | 4 | **delay** | past · passive | | the right treatment | | | | | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: subject=Source | | 5 | **burn** | past | the battery | battery's throat | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent throat=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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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