--- title: Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what y… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics description: Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what you were asked. Who acts: Pretending. A sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Little lies at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/) / 18 # Little lies at home, sentence 18 Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what you were asked. **Who acts:** Pretending · **What happens:** pretend, not hear, call, not do, ask · **To what, where:** you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pretending), 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:18 # text = Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what you were asked. # 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 1 Pretending pretend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 csubj _ _ 2 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 8 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 13 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl:relcl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **hear** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **do** | present · progressive | Pretending | | | | still | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive | | you | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:18`. **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. **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: [Little lies at home, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/17/) - next →: [Little lies at home, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/)