--- title: Sam said his project was at school, then «in the teacher's cupboard»… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Sam said his project was at school, then «in the teacher's cupboard», until the teacher said «What project? Who acts: Sam, project, teacher. 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 --- [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/25/) [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/) / 25 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 25 Sam said his project was at school, then «in the teacher's cupboard», until the teacher said «What project? **Who acts:** Sam, project, teacher · **What happens:** say, be, project · **To what, where:** school, cupboard » · **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 (Sam, project, teacher), 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:25 # text = Sam said his project was at school, then «in the teacher's cupboard», until the teacher said «What project? # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 21 advmod _ _ 10 « « PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod:poss 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 cupboard cupboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 until until SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 23 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 24 det _ _ 24 project project NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: wh-question - act: ask - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=wh | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Sam's project | | | school | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | cupboard » | then | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in »=Manner | | 4 | **project** | | Sam | | | | | | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:25`. **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, 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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