--- title: Two people telling the same lie often get caught when they are asked… — Big kids, little kids and the truth at home · tree and pragmatics description: Two people telling the same lie often get caught when they are asked separately, because their details don't match. Who acts: Two people, details, people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two people, details, people), 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:39 # text = Two people telling the same lie often get caught when they are asked separately, because their details don't match. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:root 3 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 14 separately separately ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 because because SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 19 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Two people *not said here* | the same lie | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | | 2 | **catch** | present · passive | | Two people | | | | often *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present · passive | | people | | | | separately *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **not** **match** | present · do-support | people's details | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **detail** | | people | | | | | | nom detail «cognition 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:433-big-kids-little-kids-and-the-truth-at-home.lesson:39`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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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