Lies that grow: one lie needs three more, sentence 14

«Our kid,» said Mum, «you dug a hole and then built a house in it.» («Our kid» is Manchester and Liverpool talk for a brother, sister or your own child.) Hamza said his 4 out of 10 was a 9; Mum wanted it on the fridge, so «the teacher kept it»; Dad wanted to email the teacher to say well done — and Hamza told the truth before Dad pressed send.

Who acts: Mum, you, Manchester, Hamza, 4, teacher · What happens: say, dig, build, be, want, keep · To what, where: hole, house, talk, 9, fridge, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that grow: one lie needs three more» of the everyday 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 (Mum, you, Manchester, Hamza), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 kid	punct
2	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 kid	nmod:poss
3	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kid	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 kid	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 said	parataxis
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 dug	nsubj
11	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dug	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 built	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 built	advmod
16	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dug	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 built	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 built	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 dug	punct
23	(	(	PUNCT	_	32 talk	punct
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	26 kid	punct
25	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 kid	nmod:poss
26	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 talk	obl
27	»	»	PUNCT	_	26 kid	punct
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 talk	cop
29	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 talk	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Liverpool	cc
31	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Manchester	conj
32	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 said	parataxis
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 brother	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 brother	det
35	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 talk	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sister	punct
37	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brother	conj
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 child	cc
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 child	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 child	amod
41	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brother	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 talk	punct
43	)	)	PUNCT	_	32 talk	punct
44	Hamza	Hamza	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 said	nsubj
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 4	nmod:poss
47	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	53 9	nsubj
48	out	out	ADP	_	50 10	case
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 10	case
50	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	47 4	nmod
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 9	cop
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 9	det
53	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	45 said	ccomp
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 wanted	punct
55	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 wanted	nsubj
56	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 said	ccomp
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 wanted	obj
58	on	on	ADP	_	60 fridge	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 fridge	det
60	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wanted	obl
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 kept	punct
62	so	so	ADV	_	66 kept	advmod
63	«	«	PUNCT	_	66 kept	punct
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 teacher	det
65	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 kept	nsubj
66	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 wanted	conj
67	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 kept	obj
68	»	»	PUNCT	_	66 kept	punct
69	;	;	PUNCT	_	71 wanted	punct
70	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 wanted	nsubj
71	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 said	ccomp
72	to	to	PART	_	73 email	mark
73	email	email	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 wanted	xcomp
74	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 teacher	det
75	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 email	obj
76	to	to	PART	_	77 say	mark
77	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 email	advcl
78	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	79 done	advmod
79	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	77 say	xcomp
80	—	-	PUNCT	_	83 told	punct
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	83 told	cc
82	Hamza	Hamza	PROPN	Number=Sing	83 told	nsubj
83	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 wanted	conj
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 truth	det
85	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	83 told	obj
86	before	before	SCONJ	_	88 pressed	mark
87	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	88 pressed	nsubj
88	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	83 told	advcl
89	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	88 pressed	xcomp
90	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mum					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dig in a quote	past	you	a hole				vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme
3	build in a quote	past	you not said here	a house	house	then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product
4	is a	present	Manchester and Liverpool	talk			for a brother and sister or your own child; Our kid obl	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Hamza					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is a	past	Hamza's 4 out 10	a 9				tree rules
7	want	past	Mum	hole	the fridge			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
8	keep in a quote	past	the teacher	hole				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
9	want	past	Dad					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
10	email not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dad not said here	the teacher				tree rules
11	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Dad not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
12	do	participle	Dad not said here				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	tell speech: assert	past	Hamza	the truth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
14	press	past	Dad					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
15	send	infinitive	Dad not said here					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:430-lies-that-grow-one-lie-needs-three-more.lesson:14.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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