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title: Some family stories, like Santa watching, are play that children gro… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics
description: Some family stories, like Santa watching, are play that children grow out of, not cheating. Who acts: Santa, family stories, children. 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 e
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# Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 35

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Some family stories, like Santa watching, are play that children grow out of, not cheating.

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**Who acts:** Santa, family stories, children · **What happens:** watch, be, grow out, not cheat · **To what, where:** play

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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 (Santa, family stories, children), 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:35
# text = Some family stories, like Santa watching, are play that children grow out of, not cheating.
# 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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	cheating	cheat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **watch** | gerund | Santa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | some family stories like Santa | play |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow out** | present | children |  |  |  |  | of play | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **cheat** | gerund | some family stories like Santa *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:35`.

**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/).

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