Soft words for hard things: crime, prison and the police and lying and honesty, sentence 4
A vivid example: a politician who says he "misremembered" may simply have lied.
Who acts: politician, vivid example · What happens: say, misremember, lie · 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 (politician, vivid example), 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 | 3 example | det |
| 2 | vivid | vivid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 example | amod |
| 3 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 politician | det |
| 6 | politician | politician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lied | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 politician | acl:relcl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 misremembered | nsubj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 misremembered | punct |
| 11 | misremembered | misremember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 misremembered | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lied | aux |
| 14 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 16 lied | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lied | aux |
| 16 | lied | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a politician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | misremember in a quote | past | politician | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lie | may · perfect | a vivid example | simply property | 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:4.
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. 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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