Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★, sentence 13

A truth-teller never says "I am a liar" and a liar never says it either, because for the liar it would be true.

Who acts: truth teller, liar · What happens: not say, be · To what, where: liar, teller · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: claims, clues and tricky messages ★★★» of the ai 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 (truth teller, liar), 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	4 teller	det
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teller	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 truth	punct
4	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 says	advmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 liar	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 liar	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 liar	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 liar	det
11	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 liar	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 says	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 liar	det
15	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 says	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 says	advmod
17	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 says	obj
19	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 says	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 says	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 true	mark
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 liar	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 liar	det
24	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 true	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 true	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 true	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 says	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present	a truth teller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	a truth teller = teller	a liar		tree rules
3	not say speech: assert	present	a liar	teller	either property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	is	would	liar		for the liar; true 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:ai:032-olympiad-claims-clues-and-tricky-messages.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): no change. 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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