--- title: The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice char… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics description: The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice chart for the fridge. Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/8/) [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/) / [Excuses and the lies that grow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/) / 8 # Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 8 The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice chart for the fridge. **Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** waste, have, own up, make · **To what, where:** lesson, practice chart This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (teacher), 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:8 # text = The lesson was wasted, and he had to own up and make a practice chart for the fridge. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 wasted waste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 13 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 chart chart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **waste** | past · passive | | the lesson | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **have** | past | teacher | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **own up** | to-infinitive | teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | teacher *not said here* | a practice chart | | | | for the fridge | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent chart=Product for fridge=Asset | 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:8`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/7/) - next →: [Excuses and the lies that grow, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow/)