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title: Parents are usually more upset about being lied to than about the th… — Fighting games at a friend's house · tree and pragmatics
description: Parents are usually more upset about being lied to than about the thing itself. Who acts: Parents. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fighting games at a friend's house, sentence 28

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Parents are usually more upset about being lied to than about the thing itself.

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**Who acts:** Parents · **What happens:** be, lie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting games at a friend's house» 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 (Parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:28
# text = Parents are usually more upset about being lied to than about the thing itself.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:advmod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJR:Degree=Cmp
5	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lied	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parents |  |  |  |  | upset, usually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund · passive | Parents *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the thing  thing | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» |

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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:401-fighting-games-at-a-friends.lesson:28`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×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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