--- title: The plain truth is nearly always the cheapest: «I didn't do it, I'll… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: The plain truth is nearly always the cheapest: «I didn't do it, I'll bring it tomorrow», or «I got stuck». Who acts: plain truth, Theo. A sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/18/) [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/) / [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/) / 18 # «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 18 The plain truth is nearly always the cheapest: «I didn't do it, I'll bring it tomorrow», or «I got stuck». **Who acts:** plain truth, Theo · **What happens:** be, not do, bring, get · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson ««The dog ate it»: excuses for homework» 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 (plain truth, Theo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:18 # text = The plain truth is nearly always the cheapest: «I didn't do it, I'll bring it tomorrow», or «I got stuck». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 8 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 cheapest cheap ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 10 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the plain truth | | | | | always, cheap *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | past · do-support | Theo in Leeds *= theo* | truth | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | Theo in Leeds *= theo* | truth | | | tomorrow | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **get** *in a quote* | past | Theo in Leeds *= theo* | | | | | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework.lesson:18`. **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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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