Olympiad: tricky comprehension, sentence 10
Clues in a text, like crumbs on a jumper, can show that a character is not telling the truth.
Who acts: Clues, character · What happens: show, not tell · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: tricky comprehension» 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 (Clues, character), 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 | Clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 show | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 text | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 text | det |
| 4 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clues | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 crumbs | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 crumbs | case |
| 7 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Clues | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 jumper | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jumper | det |
| 10 | jumper | jumper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crumbs | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clues | punct |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 telling | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 character | det |
| 16 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 telling | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 telling | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 telling | advmod |
| 19 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 show | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 truth | det |
| 21 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 telling | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | can | Clues in a text like crumbs on a jumper | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | present · progressive | a character | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
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:060-olympiad-tricky-comprehension.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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