--- title: Zoe kept lying about little things — sweets, homework, chores — unti… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics description: Zoe kept lying about little things — sweets, homework, chores — until her dad said, «I want to believe you, but I can't yet.» That hurt. Who acts: Zoe, dad, That. 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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 (Zoe, dad, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:455-trusting-again.lesson:11 # text = Zoe kept lying about little things — sweets, homework, chores — until her dad said, «I want to believe you, but I can't yet.» That hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 455-trusting-again.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 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 about about ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 — - PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sweets sweet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 chores chore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 13 — - PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 xcomp _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 yet yet ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 33 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj _ _ 34 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | Zoe | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | Zoe *not said here* | | | | | about little things | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thing=Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Zoe's dad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **want** *in a quote* | present | Zoe's dad *= dad* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **believe** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Zoe's dad *= dad* *not said here* | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 6 | **hurt** | past | That | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:455-trusting-again.lesson:11`. **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/). - ← previous: [Trusting again, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/9/) - next →: [Trusting again, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/)