Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 17
"Stretching the truth" means exaggerating so much that it becomes lying.
Who acts: Stretching, truth · What happens: stretch, mean, exaggerate, become, lie · To what, where: truth, much · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty» of the euphemisms 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 (Stretching, truth), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stretching | punct |
| 2 | Stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 means | csubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stretching | obj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stretching | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | exaggerating | exaggerate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 exaggerating | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 becomes | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 becomes | nsubj |
| 12 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 much | advcl |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 becomes | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch in a quote | gerund | the truth | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent truth=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | Stretching | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | exaggerate not said to happen | gerund | Stretching not said here | much | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | present | truth | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | truth not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:17.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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