Reading faces and voices, sentence 15
Words and body can say different things; then the body is often closer to the truth.
Who acts: Words, body · What happens: say, be · To what, where: different things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading faces and voices» 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 (Words, body), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 body | cc |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Words | conj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | aux |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 say | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 closer | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closer | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 closer | cop |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 closer | advmod |
| 14 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 say | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 truth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 truth | det |
| 17 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 closer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 say | 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 | can | Words and body | different things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the body | then | to the truth; close, often property | 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:everyday:014-faces-and-voices.lesson:15.
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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