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description: Pretend play like the tooth fairy is shared imagination; for a little one it is the parents' call, and if he asks you seriously, send him to his parents. Who acts: Pretend play, play, fairy. A sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion ethics course o
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# Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits, sentence 5

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Pretend play like the tooth fairy is shared imagination; for a little one it is the parents' call, and if he asks you seriously, send him to his parents.

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**Who acts:** Pretend play, play, fairy · **What happens:** share, be, ask, send · **To what, where:** shared imagination, call, you, fairy, parents

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pretend, cover stories and lies that become habits» of the religion ethics 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 (Pretend play, play, fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.lesson:5
# text = Pretend play like the tooth fairy is shared imagination; for a little one it is the parents' call, and if he asks you seriously, send him to his parents.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 085-pretend-cover-stories-and-lies-that-become-habits.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	Pretend	pretend	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
29	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:iobj
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	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 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Pretend play like the tooth fairy | shared imagination and the parents's call |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | play | the parents's call |  |  |  | for a little one | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | fairy |  | you |  |  | seriously *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 5 | **send** | infinitive |  | fairy | fairy's parents |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to parent=Destination |

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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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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