Debating and discussion, sentence 10
Calling something a lie does not prove it is false; you need evidence.
Who acts: Calling, lie, you · What happens: call, not prove, be, need · To what, where: something, evidence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english 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 (Calling, lie, 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 | Calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 prove | csubj |
| 2 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 1 Calling | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lie | det |
| 4 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Calling | obj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prove | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 prove | advmod |
| 7 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 false | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 false | cop |
| 10 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prove | ccomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 need | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prove | parataxis |
| 14 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | something | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme lie=Result | |||||
| 2 | not prove | present · do-support | Calling | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | lie | false property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | you | evidence | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot evidence=Theme |
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:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:10.
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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