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title: No sweets today.» Ben's mum said the tablet «needs a rest at night o… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: No sweets today.» Ben's mum said the tablet «needs a rest at night or it breaks». Who acts: sweets, tablet. 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 11

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No sweets today.» Ben's mum said the tablet «needs a rest at night or it breaks».

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**Who acts:** sweets, tablet · **What happens:** say, need, break · **To what, where:** rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, tablet), 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:11
# text = No sweets today.» Ben's mum said the tablet «needs a rest at night or it breaks».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sweets	sweet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
6	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tablet	tablet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | no sweets  today |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **need** | present | the tablet | a rest |  |  | at night |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | present | tablet |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:11`.

**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. **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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