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title: In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hid… — Eyes and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar. Who acts: Britain, carrot story, pilots. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eyes and ears, sentence 8

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In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar.

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**Who acts:** Britain, carrot story, pilots · **What happens:** spread, help, hide, use · **To what, where:** carrot story, Second World War, radar

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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 (Britain, carrot story, pilots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:8
# text = In the Second World War, Britain spread the carrot story to help hide that its pilots used radar.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 003-eyes-and-ears.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Second	Second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
4	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pilots	pilot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
19	radar	radar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **spread** | past | Britain | the carrot story |  | the Second World War |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme in war=Destination |
| 2 | **help** | to-infinitive | Britain *not said here* | the carrot story *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | infinitive | the carrot story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | past | story's pilots | radar |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radar=Patient |

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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:myths:003-eyes-and-ears.lesson:8`.

**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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