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title: Ben's teacher drew a «lie ladder»: one lie on the bottom rung, and e… — When the story falls apart · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben's teacher drew a «lie ladder»: one lie on the bottom rung, and every rung needs another lie to hold it up. Who acts: teacher, rung. A sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# When the story falls apart, sentence 19

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Ben's teacher drew a «lie ladder»: one lie on the bottom rung, and every rung needs another lie to hold it up.

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**Who acts:** teacher, rung · **What happens:** draw, need, hold up · **To what, where:** lie ladder, lie, rung

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This is a sentence of the lesson «When the story falls apart» 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 (teacher, rung), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:19
# text = Ben's teacher drew a «lie ladder»: one lie on the bottom rung, and every rung needs another lie to hold it up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 431-when-the-story-falls-apart.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): no change
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	rung	rung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	rung	rung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **draw** | past | Ben's teacher | a lie ladder |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | every rung | another lie |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lie=Theme |
| 3 | **hold up** | to-infinitive | every rung *not said here* | rung |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |

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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:431-when-the-story-falls-apart.lesson:19`.

**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): no change. **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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