--- title: In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», when the boy really needed help nobody… — Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in ga… · tree and pragmatics description: In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», when the boy really needed help nobody came, because he had lied before. Who acts: Boy, nobody. 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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, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:10 # text = In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», when the boy really needed help nobody came, because he had lied before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.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 ×6, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 2 « « PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 3 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 4 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 5 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 6 Cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 7 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 really really ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 15 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 lied lie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:parataxis 23 before before ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | the Boy | Wolf | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | | 2 | **need** | past | the boy | help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme | | 3 | **come** | past | nobody | the Boy | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | past · perfect | Boy | | | | | before *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:10`. **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 ×6, 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. 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