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title: It was something bigger, and Ben found out from his cousin. — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics
description: It was something bigger, and Ben found out from his cousin. Who acts: visit, Ben. A sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Lied to by someone you love, sentence 10

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It was something bigger, and Ben found out from his cousin.

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**Who acts:** visit, Ben · **What happens:** be, find out · **To what, where:** something, cousin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Lied to by someone you love» 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 (visit, Ben), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:10
# text = It was something bigger, and Ben found out from his cousin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.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): no change
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | visit | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** | past | Ben |  |  | Ben's cousin |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cousin=Source |

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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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**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:453-lied-to-by-someone-you-love.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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