Grown-ups' little lies: the ice-cream van, sentence 42

When you find out a grown-up's little lie, it is fine to tell them how it felt.

Who acts: you, exaggeration, grown up · What happens: find out, grow, be, tell, feel, lie · To what, where: little lie, lies · 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 (you, exaggeration, grown up), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 find	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 find	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 up	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 up	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 grown	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 up	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lie	amod
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fine	expl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fine	cop
15	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fine	csubj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 felt	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 felt	nsubj
21	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 fine	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find out	present	you	a grown up's little lie			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Topic
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present				fine property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			lies = lie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	feel	past	exaggeration				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	lie		a grown up				nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=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:42.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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.

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