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title: Last summer Leo told his mum he'd lost his phone, but really he'd sw… — The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret · tree and pragmatics
description: Last summer Leo told his mum he'd lost his phone, but really he'd swapped it with a mate for a game; Mum paid for a new one and cried about the money, and months later, in bed, he still thought, "She cried over money because of me. Who acts: Leo, Mum. A sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found o
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# The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 1

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Last summer Leo told his mum he'd lost his phone, but really he'd swapped it with a mate for a game; Mum paid for a new one and cried about the money, and months later, in bed, he still thought, "She cried over money because of me.

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**Who acts:** Leo, Mum · **What happens:** tell, lost, swap, pay, cry, think · **To what, where:** mum, phone, bed, money · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret» of the reflection 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 (Leo, Mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:1
# text = Last summer Leo told his mum he'd lost his phone, but really he'd swapped it with a mate for a game; Mum paid for a new one and cried about the money, and months later, in bed, he still thought, "She cried over money because of me.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Leo	Leo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lost	lost	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	swapped	swap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc
33	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
40	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	47	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	still	still	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=51:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
50	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	ccomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis
52	over	over	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:obj
54	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	56	case	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	fixed	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
57	.	.	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Leo |  | Leo's mum |  | summer |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lost** | past · perfect | Leo | Leo's phone |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swap** | past · perfect | Leo | phone |  |  |  | with a mate; for a game | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for game=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | past | Mum |  |  |  |  | for a new one | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the money | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about money=Topic |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Leo |  |  | bed | still | late *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **cry over** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | mum | money |  |  |  | because Leo | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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