Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 19
A "tall tale" is an invented, unbelievable story.
Who acts: tall tale · What happens: invent, be · To what, where: invented unbelievable story
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 (tall tale), 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 tale | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
| 3 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tale | amod |
| 4 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tale | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 story | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 8 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 story | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 invented | punct |
| 10 | unbelievable | unbelievable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | participle | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a tall tale | a invented unbelievable story | 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:euphemisms:028-stealing-and-lying.lesson:19.
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): R8-pos-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.
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