Growing up, honesty and manners, sentence 14

A boy in Texas lied that he had done his homework for weeks; when the test came he could not do any of it and had to stay behind for extra classes.

Who acts: boy, test · What happens: lie, do, come, not do, have, stay · To what, where: homework, any

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing up, honesty and manners» of the everyday 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 (boy, test), 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	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 done	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 done	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 lied	ccomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 homework	nmod:poss
11	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 done	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 done	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 test	det
17	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 do	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 do	advmod
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lied	conj
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 do	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 any	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 do	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 stay	mark
29	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 had	xcomp
30	behind	behind	ADV	_	29 stay	advmod
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 classes	case
32	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 classes	amod
33	classes	class	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 stay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a boy in Texas				tree rules
2	do	past · perfect	boy	boy's homework	week		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Eventuality
3	come	past	the test				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not do	could	test	any			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality
5	have	past	test not said here				tree rules
6	stay	to-infinitive	test not said here			for extra classes; behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:everyday:104-growing-up-honesty-and-manners.lesson:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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