Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 1
The wish to fool someone is what makes it a lie.
What happens: fool, make · To what, where: someone, wish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, and what is not a lie» 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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wish | det |
| 2 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fool | mark |
| 4 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wish | acl |
| 5 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 fool | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 makes | nsubj |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 is | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lie | det |
| 11 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | to-infinitive | someone | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Patient | |||||
| 2 | make | present | wish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:1.
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. 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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