--- title: Crossing your eyes does not make them stay that way; it is an old my… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: Crossing your eyes does not make them stay that way; it is an old myth. Who acts: Crossing, eyes, 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 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/33/) [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/) / 33 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 33 Crossing your eyes does not make them stay that way; it is an old myth. **Who acts:** Crossing, eyes, rule · **What happens:** cross, not make, not stay, be · **To what, where:** eyes, way, old myth 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 (Crossing, eyes, 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:33 # text = Crossing your eyes does not make them stay that way; it is an old myth. # 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): no change 1 Crossing cross VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 myth myth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cross** | gerund | | your eyes | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Crossing | eyes *= eye* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **stay** | infinitive | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | that way | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | present | rule | a old myth | | | | | 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:33`. **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): no change. **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…, 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/32/) - next →: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/34/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/)