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title: Ava, new at school and wanting friends fast, showed a photo of «her… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava, new at school and wanting friends fast, showed a photo of «her horse» at Grandpa's farm; a girl did a reverse image search and found the photo on a horse-riding website. Who acts: Ava, girl. A sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» of the everyday course of Mova's pri
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# Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 24

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Ava, new at school and wanting friends fast, showed a photo of «her horse» at Grandpa's farm; a girl did a reverse image search and found the photo on a horse-riding website.

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**Who acts:** Ava, girl · **What happens:** want, show, do, find · **To what, where:** friends, photo, farm, image search, riding website

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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 (Ava, girl), 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:24
# text = Ava, new at school and wanting friends fast, showed a photo of «her horse» at Grandpa's farm; a girl did a reverse image search and found the photo on a horse-riding website.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Grandpa	Grandpa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	reverse	reverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
29	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	_
39	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
40	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | gerund | Ava *not said here* | friends |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | past | Ava | a photo of Ava's horse |  | Grandpa's farm |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient |
| 3 | **do** | past | a girl | a image search |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent search=Eventuality |
| 4 | **find** | past | a girl *not said here* | the photo |  | a riding website |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Topic |

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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:24`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.

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

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