--- title: Josh heard his mum tell the neighbour «We'd love to come!» and then… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Josh heard his mum tell the neighbour «We'd love to come!» and then at home: «Ugh, I hate barbecues.» Josh asked if that was lying. Who acts: Josh, mum, We, Ollie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Josh, mum, We, Ollie), 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:25 # text = Josh heard his mum tell the neighbour «We'd love to come!» and then at home: «Ugh, I hate barbecues.» Josh asked if that was lying. # 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 ×2 1 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 9 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 Ugh ugh INTJ UH _ 25 discourse _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hate hate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 barbecues barbecue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 28 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Josh Josh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | Josh | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Josh's mum | the neighbour | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **love** *in a quote* | would | We | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **hate** *in a quote* | present | Ollie | barbecues | | home | then | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barbecue=Stimulus | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Josh | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | that | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:25`. **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 ×2. **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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