Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 17
Asking kindly, "Does it hurt?" gives an older person a chance to be honest.
Who acts: way · What happens: ask, hurt, give, be · To what, where: chance, older person · 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 (way), 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 | Asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hurt | advcl |
| 2 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 1 Asking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Asking | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Asking | punct |
| 5 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hurt | nsubj |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hurt | punct |
| 10 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hurt | parataxis |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gives | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chance | det |
| 15 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gives | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 honest | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 honest | cop |
| 18 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chance | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | way not said here | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present · do-support | way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | present | a chance | a older person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent person=Recipient chance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | a chance not said here | honest 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:17.
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 ×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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