Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 1
Some are polite habits, some are small kind untruths called white lies, and some are real, important feelings like sorry and proud.
Who acts: Some, small kind untruths · What happens: be, call · To what, where: polite habits, small kind untruths, white lies · 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 (Some, small kind untruths), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 habits | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 habits | cop |
| 3 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 habits | amod |
| 4 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 untruths | punct |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 untruths | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 untruths | cop |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 untruths | amod |
| 9 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 untruths | amod |
| 10 | untruths | untruth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 habits | parataxis |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 untruths | acl |
| 12 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lies | amod |
| 13 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 real | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 real | cc |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 real | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 real | cop |
| 18 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 habits | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feelings | punct |
| 20 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feelings | amod |
| 21 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 real | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 sorry | case |
| 23 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feelings | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 proud | cc |
| 25 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sorry | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 habits | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Some | polite habits | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | some | small kind untruths | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | small kind untruths not said here | white lies | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | some | important feelings like sorry obl; real property | tree rules |
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: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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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