--- title: Real reasons are easier to follow, and most grown-ups laugh when cau… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Real reasons are easier to follow, and most grown-ups laugh when caught. Who acts: Real reasons, grown ups. 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. --- [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/30/) [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/) / 30 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 30 Real reasons are easier to follow, and most grown-ups laugh when caught. **Who acts:** Real reasons, grown ups · **What happens:** be, follow, grow, laugh, catch 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 (Real reasons, grown ups), 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:30 # text = Real reasons are easier to follow, and most grown-ups laugh when caught. # 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 Real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 10 advmod _ _ 10 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 laugh laugh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 15 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Real reasons | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Real reasons *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **laugh** | present | grown ups | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **catch** | participle | grown ups *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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:30`. **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…, 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/29/) - next →: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/31/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/)