Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 4

Learning to hear what a phrase really means helps you know when to wait, when to ask again later, and when a grown-up is telling you something that truly matters.

Who acts: phrase, Learning, you, grown up · What happens: learn, hear, mean, help, know, wait · To what, where: something, you · 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 (phrase, Learning, you, grown up), 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	Learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 helps	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 hear	mark
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Learning	xcomp
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 means	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 phrase	det
6	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 means	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 wait	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wait	mark
14	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ask	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 ask	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ask	mark
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 know	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 ask	advmod
20	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 ask	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 telling	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 telling	cc
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 telling	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 up	det
25	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 up	amod
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 grown	punct
27	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 telling	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 telling	aux
29	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 helps	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 telling	iobj
31	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 telling	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 matters	nsubj
33	truly	truly	ADV	_	34 matters	advmod
34	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 something	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	learn	gerund						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	to-infinitive						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	mean	present	a phrase					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	help	present	Learning					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	know	infinitive	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	wait	to-infinitive						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	you not said here			again	late property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	grow	participle						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	a grown up	something	you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
10	matter	present					truly property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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:4.

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. 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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