--- title: When you find out a grown-up's little lie, it is fine to tell them h… — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: When you find out a grown-up's little lie, it is fine to tell them how it felt. Who acts: you, exaggeration, grown up. 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/42/) [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/) / 42 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 42 When you find out a grown-up's little lie, it is fine to tell them how it felt. **Who acts:** you, exaggeration, grown up · **What happens:** find out, grow, be, tell, feel, lie · **To what, where:** little lie, lies · **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 (you, exaggeration, grown up), 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:42 # text = When you find out a grown-up's little lie, it is fine to tell them how it felt. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det 6 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 lie lie NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nsubj 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 csubj _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find out** | present | you | a grown up's little lie | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | lies *= lie* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **feel** | past | exaggeration | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **lie** | | a grown up | | | | | | nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=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:42`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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