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title: But you're right — I could've said we're busy.» — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: But you're right — I could've said we're busy.» Who acts: you, I, we. 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 27

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But you're right — I could've said we're busy.»

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**Who acts:** you, I, we · **What happens:** be, say · **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 (you, I, we), 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:27
# text = But you're right — I could've said we're busy.»
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
9	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | could · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | busy *property* | tree rules |

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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:27`.

**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): 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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