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title: Jack trained all summer because his coach said he'd «definitely» be… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics
description: Jack trained all summer because his coach said he'd «definitely» be in the team; the coach picked someone else and said «I never promised anything.» Jack's dad said: «He shouldn't have said it. Who acts: Jack, coach, dad. A sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» of the everyday cour
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# Being lied to and how it feels, sentence 11

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Jack trained all summer because his coach said he'd «definitely» be in the team; the coach picked someone else and said «I never promised anything.» Jack's dad said: «He shouldn't have said it.

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**Who acts:** Jack, coach, dad · **What happens:** train, say, be, pick, not promise, not say · **To what, where:** team, someone, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being lied to and how it feels» 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 (Jack, coach, dad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:11
# text = Jack trained all summer because his coach said he'd «definitely» be in the team; the coach picked someone else and said «I never promised anything.» Jack's dad said: «He shouldn't have said it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	trained	train	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
10	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
12	definitely	definitely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	else	else	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
30	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
32	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
38	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
39	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
40	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	aux	_	_
43	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	ccomp	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | past | Jack |  |  |  | summer |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack's coach |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | coach |  |  | the team |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pick** | past | the coach | someone |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the coach *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | the coach *= coach* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jack's dad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should · perfect | dad | team |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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**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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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