--- title: Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said Santa watched through the smoke alarm light. Who acts: Grandpa, tablet, uncle, Santa. 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 --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 16 Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said Santa watched through the smoke alarm light. **Who acts:** Grandpa, tablet, uncle, Santa · **What happens:** chuckle, work, say, watch · **To what, where:** alarm light · **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, tablet, uncle, Santa), 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:16 # text = Grandpa chuckled: «Well, it worked on your daddy.» Emma's uncle said Santa watched through the smoke alarm light. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 chuckled chuckle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 5 Well well INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 9 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 daddy daddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 14 Emma Emma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 Santa Santa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 20 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 smoke smoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 alarm alarm NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chuckle** | past | Grandpa | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **work** *in a quote* | past | tablet | | | | | on your daddy | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on daddy=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Emma's uncle | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **watch** | past | Santa | | | the alarm light | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through light=Location | 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:16`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/15/) - next →: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/)