--- title: Jake in Manchester swapped his bus pass for sweets and told Mum he'd… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Jake in Manchester swapped his bus pass for sweets and told Mum he'd lost it. Who acts: Jake. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/11/) [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/) / [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/) / 11 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 11 Jake in Manchester swapped his bus pass for sweets and told Mum he'd lost it. **Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** swap, tell, lose, pass · **To what, where:** bus pass, Mum, pass · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» 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 (Jake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:11 # text = Jake in Manchester swapped his bus pass for sweets and told Mum he'd lost it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 swapped swap VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 bus bus NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 pass pass NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 iobj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 ccomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . 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 | **swap** | past | Jake in Manchester | Jake's bus pass | | | | for sweets | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent pass=Theme for sweet=Co-Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jake in Manchester *not said here* | | Mum | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **lose** | past · perfect | Jake | pass | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **pass** | | Jake | | | | | | nom pass «act transitive»: poss=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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:11`. **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, 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. 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