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title: Sometimes nobody catches you, and that can be worse. — Little lies at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes nobody catches you, and that can be worse. Who acts: nobody, that. 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 6

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Sometimes nobody catches you, and that can be worse.

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**Who acts:** nobody, that · **What happens:** catch, be · **To what, where:** you

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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 (nobody, that), 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:6
# text = Sometimes nobody catches you, and that can be worse.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **catch** | present | nobody | you |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | that |  |  |  |  | bad *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:6`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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/).

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