--- title: Theo skipped football for «a cold»; the coach saw him at the cinema,… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Theo skipped football for «a cold»; the coach saw him at the cinema, so it was «a cinema for sick people». Who acts: Theo, coach. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theo, coach), 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:19 # text = Theo skipped football for «a cold»; the coach saw him at the cinema, so it was «a cinema for sick people». # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 skipped skip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:cc|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cinema cinema NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **skip** | past | Theo | football | | | | for a cold | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | the coach | Theo | | the cinema | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | coach | a cinema | | | | for sick people | tree rules | 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:19`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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