--- title: Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky told her that if she crossed her eyes too… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky told her that if she crossed her eyes too long they'd stay that way. Who acts: grandpa, Kentucky, eyes. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/14/) [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/) / [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/) / 14 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 14 Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky told her that if she crossed her eyes too long they'd stay that way. **Who acts:** grandpa, Kentucky, eyes · **What happens:** tell, cross, stay · **To what, where:** Kentucky, eyes, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (grandpa, Kentucky, eyes), 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:14 # text = Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky told her that if she crossed her eyes too long they'd stay that way. # 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 ×3 1 Lucy Lucy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Kentucky Kentucky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:mark 9 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crossed cross VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:ccomp 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 too too ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advcl 19 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 20 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lucy's grandpa in Kentucky | | Kentucky | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **cross** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Kentucky | Kentucky's eyes | | | | long *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **stay** | would | eyes *= eye* | that way | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:14`. **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 ×3. **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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