--- title: Grown-ups sometimes tell little lies to avoid an argument, to save m… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups sometimes tell little lies to avoid an argument, to save money or because they are tired. Who acts: Grown ups, 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 clau --- [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/31/) [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/) / 31 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 31 Grown-ups sometimes tell little lies to avoid an argument, to save money or because they are tired. **Who acts:** Grown ups, ups · **What happens:** tell, avoid, save, be · **To what, where:** little lies, argument, money · **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 (Grown ups, 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:31 # text = Grown-ups sometimes tell little lies to avoid an argument, to save money or because they are tired. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grown grow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 lies lie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:parataxis 15 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Grown ups | little lies | | | | sometimes *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | | 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | a argument | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent argument=Location | | 3 | **save** | to-infinitive | Grown ups *not said here* | money | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | ups *= up* | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | 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:31`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. 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