Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 13
A parent showing your drawing to everyone at work is proud of you; parents show off their children because it makes them happy.
Who acts: parent, parents, drawing, your · What happens: show, be, show off, make, draw · To what, where: drawing, everyone, children, parents
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 (parent, parents, drawing, your), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 parent | det |
| 2 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 parent | acl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 drawing | nmod:poss |
| 5 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 showing | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 everyone | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proud | cop |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 proud | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 show | nsubj |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proud | parataxis |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 show | compound:prt |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 show | obj |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 makes | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | nsubj |
| 22 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 makes | obj |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 makes | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 proud | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | gerund | a parent not said here | your drawing | everyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drawing=Topic to everyone=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | present | a parent | of you; proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | show off | present | parents | parents's children | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | drawing | parents = parent | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | |||
| 5 | draw | your | nom drawing «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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:13.
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): R7-rel-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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