--- title: Oisin's friend said the teacher called Oisin «the worst in the class… — Being lied to and how it feels · tree and pragmatics description: Oisin's friend said the teacher called Oisin «the worst in the class» — Oisin asked the teacher, who said «I said no such thing, you're doing grand.» And Liam's class pretended all day that his birthday was «tomorrow»; Liam was miserable — till the surprise cake. 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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 (friend, teacher, Oisin, you), 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:27 # text = Oisin's friend said the teacher called Oisin «the worst in the class» — Oisin asked the teacher, who said «I said no such thing, you're doing grand.» And Liam's class pretended all day that his birthday was «tomorrow»; Liam was miserable — till the surprise cake. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:.:_ 16 — - PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 17 Oisin Oisin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 28 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 parataxis _ _ 34 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:xcomp 35 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 36 » » PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=41:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_ 37 And and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 pretended pretend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 42 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 43 det _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 birthday birthday NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 47 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 48 « « PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 ccomp _ _ 50 » » PUNCT '' _ 49 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 51 ; ; PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 Liam Liam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 cop _ _ 54 miserable miserable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 55 — - PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 56 till till ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 58 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 compound _ _ 59 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ _ 60 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Oisin's friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **call** | past | the teacher | | Oisin | | | bad *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent oisin=Recipient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Oisin | | the teacher | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teacher | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the teacher *= teacher* | no such thing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you | grand | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grand=Eventuality | | 7 | **pretend** | past | Liam's class | | | | day | | tree rules | | 8 | **is** | past | Liam | | | | till the surprise cake | miserable *property* | tree rules | 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:27`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/24/) - next →: [Being lied to and how it feels, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/452-being-lied-to-and-how-it-feels/)