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title: When Ben found out it doesn't, Mum laughed: «Fine — YOU need rest.»… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: When Ben found out it doesn't, Mum laughed: «Fine — YOU need rest.» They made a real rule together. Who acts: Ben, Mum, YOU, 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 eve
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# Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 12

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When Ben found out it doesn't, Mum laughed: «Fine — YOU need rest.» They made a real rule together.

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**Who acts:** Ben, Mum, YOU, sweets · **What happens:** find out, laugh, need, make · **To what, where:** rest, real rule · **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 (Ben, Mum, YOU, 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:12
# text = When Ben found out it doesn't, Mum laughed: «Fine — YOU need rest.» They made a real rule together.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	Mum	Mum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	YOU	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:parataxis
17	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
20	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **find out** | past | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | YOU | rest |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | sweets *= sweet* | a real rule |  |  |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |

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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:12`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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