The lie nobody found out: carrying a secret, sentence 1

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 summer	amod
2	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl:unmarked
3	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
9	lost	lost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 phone	nmod:poss
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lost	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 swapped	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 swapped	cc
14	really	really	ADV	_	17 swapped	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swapped	nsubj
16	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 swapped	aux
17	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lost	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swapped	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 mate	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mate	det
21	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swapped	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 game	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 game	det
24	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swapped	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 paid	punct
26	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 paid	nsubj
27	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 one	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 one	det
30	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 one	amod
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 paid	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 cried	cc
33	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 paid	conj
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 money	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 money	det
36	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cried	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 months	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 months	cc
39	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 later	obl:unmarked
40	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	47 thought	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 thought	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 bed	case
43	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 thought	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 bed	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 thought	nsubj
46	still	still	ADV	_	47 thought	advmod
47	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 cried	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	51 cried	punct
50	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 cried	nsubj
51	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 thought	ccomp
52	over	over	ADP	_	51 cried	compound:prt
53	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 cried	obl
54	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	56 me	case
55	of	of	ADP	_	54 because	fixed
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 cried	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	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

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:reflection:015-the-lie-nobody-found-out-carrying-a-secret.lesson:1.

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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