Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 21

"Telling stories" is what British adults say to a child who is lying.

Who acts: Telling, British adults, child · What happens: tell, be, say, lie · To what, where: stories, child · 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, British adults, child), 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	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 what	csubj
3	stories	story	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	6 what	cop
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 adults	amod
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 child	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lying	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lying	aux
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 child	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 what	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	gerund		stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
2	is a	present	Telling			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	British adults		a child	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to child=Recipient
4	lie	present · progressive	a child			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:21.

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 ×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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