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title: Children can usually handle sad truths, like a pet dying, when they… — Lied to by someone you love · tree and pragmatics
description: Children can usually handle sad truths, like a pet dying, when they are told with love. Who acts: Children, pet. 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 47

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Children can usually handle sad truths, like a pet dying, when they are told with love.

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**Who acts:** Children, pet · **What happens:** handle, die, tell · **To what, where:** sad truths, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Children, pet), 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:47
# text = Children can usually handle sad truths, like a pet dying, when they are told with love.
# 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	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	truths	truth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **handle** | can | Children | sad truths |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | gerund | a pet |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  | with love | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:47`.

**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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