--- title: «I just couldn't buy ice cream every time that van came round, love.» — Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van · tree and pragmatics description: «I just couldn't buy ice cream every time that van came round, love.» Who acts: Mum, van. 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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 5 «I just couldn't buy ice cream every time that van came round, love.» **Who acts:** Mum, van · **What happens:** not buy, come round · **To what, where:** ice cream, time 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 (Mum, van), 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:5 # text = «I just couldn't buy ice cream every time that van came round, love.» # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 12 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 round round ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 vocative _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 18 » » 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 | **not** **buy** *in a quote* | could | Mum | ice cream | | | time | love *vocative* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cream=Theme | | 2 | **come round** *in a quote* | past | that van | every time *not said here* | | | | round *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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:5`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/4/) - next →: [Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van/)