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title: «They're right there, Dad.» «Yeah nah, caught out. — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: «They're right there, Dad.» «Yeah nah, caught out. Who acts: sweets. A sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 10

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«They're right there, Dad.» «Yeah nah, caught out.

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**Who acts:** sweets · **What happens:** be, catch out

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (sweets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:10
# text = «They're right there, Dad.» «Yeah nah, caught out.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advcl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | sweets *= sweet* |  |  |  |  | Dad *vocative*; right, there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch out** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:10`.

**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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