Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 0
Grown-ups have a set of everyday phrases that do not always mean exactly what the words say: "We'll see", "Because I said so", "We must do this again soon".
Who acts: Grown ups, everyday phrases, words, We · What happens: grow, have, not mean, say, see, do · To what, where: set, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sorry, white lies and «because I said so»» of the adult life 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 (Grown ups, everyday phrases, words, We), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 set | det |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 phrases | case |
| 8 | everyday | everyday | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 phrases | amod |
| 9 | phrases | phrase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 set | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 mean | advmod |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | _ | 14 mean | advmod |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 phrases | acl:relcl |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 16 what | advmod |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 say | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 words | det |
| 18 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 say | nsubj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | ccomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 22 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 see | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 see | aux |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 say | ccomp |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 see | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 28 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 said | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 said | advmod |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 " | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
| 35 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 do | nsubj |
| 36 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 do | aux |
| 37 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 38 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 do | obj |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 37 do | advmod |
| 40 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 do | advmod |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 do | punct |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | Grown ups | a set of everyday phrases | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not mean | present · do-support | everyday phrases | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the words | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | future | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the words = word | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | must | We | this | again | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:0.
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, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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