Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 25

Josh heard his mum tell the neighbour «We'd love to come!» and then at home: «Ugh, I hate barbecues.» Josh asked if that was lying.

Who acts: Josh, mum, We, Ollie, that · What happens: hear, tell, love, come, hate, ask · To what, where: neighbour, barbecues, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van» 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 (Josh, mum, We, Ollie), 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	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mum	nmod:poss
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 neighbour	det
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
9	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 love	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 love	aux
11	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 love	xcomp
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 love	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hate	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 hate	advmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hate	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 hate	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 hate	punct
22	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	25 hate	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hate	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hate	nsubj
25	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
26	barbecues	barbecue	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hate	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 barbecues	punct
28	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 asked	punct
29	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 asked	nsubj
30	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 lying	mark
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 lying	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lying	aux
34	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 asked	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hear	past	Josh				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Josh's mum	the neighbour			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient clause=Topic
3	love in a quote	would	We				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	come not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hate in a quote	present	Ollie	barbecues	home	then	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barbecue=Stimulus
6	ask speech: ask	past	Josh				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	lie a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	that				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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:443-grown-ups-little-lies-the-ice-cream-van.lesson:25.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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