--- title: So there are two traps: believing every boast, or calling the boaste… — My dad could lift a car: playground boasting · tree and pragmatics description: So there are two traps: believing every boast, or calling the boaster a liar and starting a fight. Who acts: two traps. A sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [My dad could lift a car: playground bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/48-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting/) / 3 # My dad could lift a car: playground boasting, sentence 3 So there are two traps: believing every boast, or calling the boaster a liar and starting a fight. **Who acts:** two traps · **What happens:** be, believe, call, start · **To what, where:** boast, boaster, fight · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «My dad could lift a car: playground boasting» of the language 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 (two traps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:3 # text = So there are two traps: believing every boast, or calling the boaster a liar and starting a fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 traps trap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 believing believe VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 calling call VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 boaster boaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 liar liar NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | two traps | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **believe** | gerund | two traps *not said here* | every boast | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boast=Stimulus | | 3 | **call** | gerund | two traps *not said here* | the boaster | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boaster=Recipient | | 4 | **start** | gerund | two traps *not said here* | a fight | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality | 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:language:048-my-dad-could-lift-a-car-playground-boasting.lesson:3`. **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): R7-rel-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. 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