--- title: Dad said: «I'd rather a true save than a fake goal, ya numpty.» — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Dad said: «I'd rather a true save than a fake goal, ya numpty.» Who acts: Dad. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 23 Dad said: «I'd rather a true save than a fake goal, ya numpty.» **Who acts:** Dad · **What happens:** say, save · **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 (Dad), 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:23 # text = Dad said: «I'd rather a true save than a fake goal, ya numpty.» # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 6 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 7 rather rather ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det 9 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 save save NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 fake fake ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 goal goal NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 ya ya INTJ UH _ 17 discourse _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:dep|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 numpty numpty NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 vocative _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=character | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **save** *in a quote* | would | Dad | | | | | than a fake goal; numpty *vocative* | 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:23`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/22/) - next →: [Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/24/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more/)