--- title: A boy said he was too tired to visit his great-aunt, who had been lo… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: A boy said he was too tired to visit his great-aunt, who had been looking forward to it; he put it right by making her a card and going with Mum the next Sunday. Who acts: boy, great aunt. 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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, great aunt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:16 # text = A boy said he was too tired to visit his great-aunt, who had been looking forward to it; he put it right by making her a card and going with Mum the next Sunday. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 visit visit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ _ 13 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 aux _ _ 18 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 forward forward ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 right right ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 by by SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl:unmarked _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | boy | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | boy's great aunt | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aunt=Co-Agent | | 4 | **look** | past · perfect · progressive | boy's great aunt | | plate | | | forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | | 5 | **put** | past | boy | plate | | | | right *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 6 | **make** | gerund | boy *not said here* | a card | girl | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary card=Product | | 7 | **go** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | sunday | with Mum | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with mum=Beneficiary | 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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/15/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)