Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 20
"Telling porkies" is British slang for telling lies, from the rhyming slang "porky pies" for lies.
Who acts: Telling · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: porkies, British slang · 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 (Telling), 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 Telling | punct |
| 2 | Telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 slang | csubj |
| 3 | porkies | porky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Telling | obj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Telling | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slang | cop |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 slang | amod |
| 7 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 lies | case |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lies | amod |
| 10 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slang | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 slang | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 slang | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slang | det |
| 14 | rhyming | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slang | compound |
| 15 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pies | compound |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pies | punct |
| 17 | porky | porky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pies | compound |
| 18 | pies | pie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slang | appos |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pies | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 lies | case |
| 21 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pies | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slang | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | porkies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent porky=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Telling | British slang | for telling lies | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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:20.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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