Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs, sentence 8
A "misstatement" is an official word for a lie or false claim.
Who acts: misstatement · What happens: be · To what, where: official word
This is a sentence of the lesson «Soft words for hard things: lying and honesty and drinking and drugs» 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 (misstatement), 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 misstatement | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 misstatement | punct |
| 3 | misstatement | misstatement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 misstatement | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 word | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 lie | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 claim | cc |
| 13 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 claim | amod |
| 14 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lie | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 word | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a misstatement | a official word | for a lie or false claim | 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:029-lying-and-drinking.lesson:8.
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): no change. 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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