--- title: Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two choc… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't. Who acts: Little lies, Owen. 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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 (Little lies, Owen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:0 # text = Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 336-little-lies-at-home.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 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod 8 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 9 Owen Owen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Leeds Leeds PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 chocolate chocolate NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 biscuits biscuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tin tin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 19 before before ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Little lies at home | | | | | small, usually *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **take** | past | Owen in Leeds | two chocolate biscuits | | the tin | before tea | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme from tin=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Owen in Leeds *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Fake websites, fake news and bots, ski…, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/23/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)