Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 10
Owning up early usually makes the trouble smaller than being caught later.
Who acts: Owning · What happens: own up, make, catch · To what, where: trouble
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: who acts (Owning), 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 | Owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 makes | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 makes | advmod |
| 5 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trouble | det |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 makes | obj |
| 8 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 makes | xcomp |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 caught | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 caught | aux:pass |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 smaller | advcl |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 caught | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | gerund | early property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | make | present | Owning | the trouble | small, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trouble=Product | |||
| 3 | catch | gerund · passive | Owning not said here | late property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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:10.
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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