--- title: When he found out, he was a bit sad — then told the same thing to hi… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: When he found out, he was a bit sad — then told the same thing to his little cousin, and it became a family joke. Who acts: moon, thing. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/2/) [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/) / [Big kids, little kids and the truth at…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home/) / 2 # Big kids, little kids and the truth at home, sentence 2 When he found out, he was a bit sad — then told the same thing to his little cousin, and it became a family joke. **Who acts:** moon, thing · **What happens:** find out, be, tell, become · **To what, where:** same thing, little cousin, family joke · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (moon, thing), 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:2 # text = When he found out, he was a bit sad — then told the same thing to his little cousin, and it became a family joke. # 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 ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 3 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ _ 11 — - PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 13 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** | past | moon | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | moon | | | | | a bit *obl:unmarked*; sad *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | the same thing | moon's little cousin | | then | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to cousin=Recipient | | 4 | **become** | past | thing | a family joke | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:2`. **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. **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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