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title: Threats to tell a lie stop when you tell a grown-up first. — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Threats to tell a lie stop when you tell a grown-up first. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 14

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Threats to tell a lie stop when you tell a grown-up first.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** lie, grown · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Big kids, little kids and the truth at home» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:14
# text = Threats to tell a lie stop when you tell a grown-up first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.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
1	Threats	threat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	grown	grown-up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | a lie |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you | grown |  |  |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient |

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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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:14`.

**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. **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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