Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 18
Parents feel nervous for the people they love even when only watching, then pride and relief rush in; their nerves show how much they care, not that they thought you'd fail.
Who acts: Parents, pride, nerves, you · What happens: feel, love, watch, rush in, show, care · To what, where: people · 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 (Parents, pride, nerves, you), 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 | Parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feel | xcomp |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 people | det |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nervous | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 love | nsubj |
| 8 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 people | acl:relcl |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 watching | advmod |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 watching | advmod |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 watching | advmod |
| 12 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 love | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pride | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 pride | advmod |
| 15 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rush | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 relief | cc |
| 17 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pride | conj |
| 18 | rush | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 18 rush | advmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 show | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nerves | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nerves | nerve | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 show | nsubj |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 love | parataxis |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 care | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 care | nsubj |
| 27 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 show | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 thought | advmod |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 thought | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 show | conj |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 fail | nsubj |
| 34 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fail | aux |
| 35 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 thought | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Parents | nervous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | love | present | parents = parent | the people not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch not said to happen | gerund | parents = parent not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rush in | present | pride and relief | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | show | present | pride's nerves | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | care | present | nerves = nerve | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | not think speech: other | past | nerves = nerve | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | fail | would | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «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:adult-life:037-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so.lesson:18.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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