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title: Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes th… — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes them wonder what else is not true. Who acts: Two biscuits, lie, biscuits. 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.
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# Little lies at home, sentence 5

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Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes them wonder what else is not true.

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**Who acts:** Two biscuits, lie, biscuits · **What happens:** be, tell, make, wonder, not be · **To what, where:** lie, face, biscuits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Two biscuits, lie, biscuits), 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:5
# text = Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes them wonder what else is not true.
# 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): no change
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	wonder	wonder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Two biscuits |  |  |  |  | nothing *obl:unmarked*; much *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a lie *not said here* | someone's face |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to face=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | present | a lie | biscuits *= biscuit* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | infinitive | biscuits *= biscuit* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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