--- title: Freya said she was at Amy's house; Mum rang Amy's mum, so it was Amy… — Lies that grow: one lie needs three more · tree and pragmatics description: Freya said she was at Amy's house; Mum rang Amy's mum, so it was Amy's gran's; which gran? Who acts: Freya, Mum, lie. 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/8/) [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/) / 8 # Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 8 Freya said she was at Amy's house; Mum rang Amy's mum, so it was Amy's gran's; which gran? **Who acts:** Freya, Mum, lie · **What happens:** say, be, ring · **To what, where:** house, mum · **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 (Freya, Mum, lie), 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:8 # text = Freya said she was at Amy's house; Mum rang Amy's mum, so it was Amy's gran's; which gran? # 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 Freya Freya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Amy Amy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 Amy Amy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod:poss 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 18 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 Amy Amy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 25 det _ _ 25 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 26 ? ? 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 | Freya | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | Freya | | | Amy's house | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ring** | past | Mum | Amy's mum | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mum=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | lie | | | | | 's Amy's gran | 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:8`. **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. 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