--- title: Saying «I left it at home» every day is a lie that shows itself, bec… — «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework · tree and pragmatics description: Saying «I left it at home» every day is a lie that shows itself, because the homework never comes. Who acts: I, Saying, lie, homework. 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 ever --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # «The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, sentence 25 Saying «I left it at home» every day is a lie that shows itself, because the homework never comes. **Who acts:** I, Saying, lie, homework · **What happens:** say, leave, be, show, not come · **To what, where:** juice, home, lie · **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 (I, Saying, lie, homework), 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:25 # text = Saying «I left it at home» every day is a lie that shows itself, because the homework never comes. # 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): no change 1 Saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 2 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 because because SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **leave** *in a quote* | past | I | juice | | home | day | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at home=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | Saying | a lie | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | present | a lie | juice | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **come** | present | the homework | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:25`. **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: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/24/) - next →: [«The dog ate it»: excuses for homework, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/426-the-dog-ate-it-excuses-for-homework/)