Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★, sentence 24
A white lie is a small kind lie to spare feelings, such as praising a present you do not like.
Who acts: white lie, you · What happens: be, spare, praise, not like · To what, where: small kind lie, feelings, present
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the euphemism detective ★★★» 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 (white lie, you), 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 lie | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lie | amod |
| 3 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lie | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lie | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lie | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lie | amod |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lie | compound |
| 8 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 spare | mark |
| 10 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lie | acl |
| 11 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spare | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 praising | punct |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 praising | mark |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 such | fixed |
| 15 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 feelings | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 present | det |
| 17 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 praising | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 like | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 present | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lie | 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 white lie | a small kind lie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | feelings | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent feeling=Asset | |||||
| 3 | praise | gerund | a present | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not like | present · do-support | you | a present not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot present=Theme |
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:041-olympiad-euphemism-detective.lesson:24.
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): R7-rel-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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