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title: He was in goal,» said the coach. — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics
description: He was in goal,» said the coach. Who acts: story, coach. 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.
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# Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 22

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He was in goal,» said the coach.

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**Who acts:** story, coach · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** goal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (story, 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:22
# text = He was in goal,» said the coach.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | story |  |  | goal |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:22`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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