Sorry, white lies and «because I said so», sentence 9
Most people think tiny kind lies are OK, but big lies that hurt people or hide important things are not.
Who acts: Most people, tiny kind lies, big lies · What happens: think, not be, hurt, hide · To what, where: people, important things · 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 (Most people, tiny kind lies, big lies), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lies | amod |
| 5 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | compound |
| 6 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 OK | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 OK | cop |
| 8 | OK | ok | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 OK | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lies | cc |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lies | amod |
| 12 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 OK | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lies | acl:relcl |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 hide | cc |
| 17 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | conj |
| 18 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hide | obj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 OK | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 OK | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | Most people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | tiny kind lies | ok property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present | big lies | people | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hide | present | big lies not said here | important things | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
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:9.
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, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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