--- title: A rule with a made-up reason, like «the tablet needs a rest», is eas… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: A rule with a made-up reason, like «the tablet needs a rest», is easier to follow when the real reason is given. Who acts: tablet, rule. 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 --- [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/32/) [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/) / 32 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 32 A rule with a made-up reason, like «the tablet needs a rest», is easier to follow when the real reason is given. **Who acts:** tablet, rule · **What happens:** make up, need, be, follow, give · **To what, where:** rest, real reason 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 (tablet, rule), 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:32 # text = A rule with a made-up reason, like «the tablet needs a rest», is easier to follow when the real reason is given. # 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): R4-particle ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=5:compound 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tablet tablet NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **need** *in a quote* | present | the tablet | a rest | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a rule with a made reason | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | a rule with a made reason *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | present · passive | | the real reason | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:32`. **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): R4-particle ×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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