--- title: The coach laughed so hard he forgot to be angry — but Theo was still… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: The coach laughed so hard he forgot to be angry — but Theo was still benched. Who acts: coach, Theo. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 20 The coach laughed so hard he forgot to be angry — but Theo was still benched. **Who acts:** coach, Theo · **What happens:** laugh, forget, not be, bench · **To what, where:** Theo 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 (coach, Theo), 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:20 # text = The coach laughed so hard he forgot to be angry — but Theo was still benched. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 — - PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 Theo Theo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 15 still still ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 benched bench VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **laugh** | past | the coach | | | | | hard *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **forget** | past | Theo | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive | Theo *not said here* | | | | | angry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **bench** | past · passive | | Theo | | | still | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:20`. **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. **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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