--- title: Zoe started telling the truth even when it was awkward, and after a… — Trusting again · tree and pragmatics description: Zoe started telling the truth even when it was awkward, and after a few months Dad said «I believe you», and Zoe nearly cried. Who acts: Zoe, truth, Dad. 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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, truth, Dad), 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:12 # text = Zoe started telling the truth even when it was awkward, and after a few months Dad said «I believe you», and Zoe nearly cried. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 even even ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 awkward awkward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 advcl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 17 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 Zoe Zoe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 . . 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 | **start** | past | Zoe | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Zoe *not said here* | the truth | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | truth | | | | | awkward *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dad | | | | month | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **believe** *in a quote* | present | Dad | you | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Zoe | | | | | nearly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:12`. **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. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/11/) - next →: [Trusting again, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/455-trusting-again/)