--- title: Sam's older brother spent the birthday money Grandma posted and said… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's older brother spent the birthday money Grandma posted and said «It never came, mate.» Grandma said «I definitely posted it.» Sam felt betrayed by his own brother, which was worse than losing the money. Who acts: older brother, Grandma, money, Sam. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (older brother, Grandma, money, Sam), 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:20 # text = Sam's older brother spent the birthday money Grandma posted and said «It never came, mate.» Grandma said «I definitely posted it.» Sam felt betrayed by his own brother, which was worse than losing the money. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ _ 4 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 10 posted post VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 « « PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advcl 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 21 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 definitely definitely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 posted post VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 ccomp _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ 29 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 30 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 32 betrayed betray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 xcomp _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:agent _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 than than SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spend** | past | Sam's older brother | the birthday money | | | | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset | | 2 | **post** | past | Grandma | the birthday money *not said here* | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sam's older brother *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | past | money | | | | | mate *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Grandma | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **post** *in a quote* | past | Grandma | money | | | | definitely *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **feel** | past | Sam | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 8 | **betray** | participle | Sam *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **is** | past | Sam's own brother | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **lose** | gerund | Sam's own brother *not said here* | the money | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality | 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:452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels.lesson:20`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Being lied to and how it feels, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/19/) - next →: [Being lied to and how it feels, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/)