--- title: Tricking a trusting little child stops being funny when they find out. — Whose turn is it? · tree and pragmatics description: Tricking a trusting little child stops being funny when they find out. Who acts: Tricking, way. A sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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/397-whose-turn-is-it/24/) [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/) / [Whose turn is it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/) / 24 # Whose turn is it?, sentence 24 Tricking a trusting little child stops being funny when they find out. **Who acts:** Tricking, way · **What happens:** trick, trust, stop, be, find out · **To what, where:** trusting little child This is a sentence of the lesson «Whose turn is it?» 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 (Tricking, way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:24 # text = Tricking a trusting little child stops being funny when they find out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 397-whose-turn-is-it.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 Tricking trick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 trusting trust VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 6 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 funny funny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **trick** | gerund | | a trusting little child | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **trust** | gerund | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stop** | present | Tricking | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **is** | gerund | Tricking *not said here* | | | | | funny *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **find out** | present | way | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | 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:397-whose-turn-is-it.lesson:24`. **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: [Whose turn is it?, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/23/) - next →: [Whose turn is it?, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/25/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/397-whose-turn-is-it/)