Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 12
Some people make up stories about themselves to be liked or admired, but real friends like you for who you really are.
Who acts: people, real friends · What happens: make up, like, admire · To what, where: stories, you
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 (people, real friends), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 make | compound:prt |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 themselves | case |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 stories | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 liked | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 liked | aux:pass |
| 10 | liked | like | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 admired | cc |
| 12 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 liked | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 friends | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 friends | cc |
| 15 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 friends | amod |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 like | nsubj |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 like | obj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 who | mark |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 friends | parataxis |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 are | nsubj |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 are | advmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 who | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | present | some people | stories | about People | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme story=Pivot | |||
| 2 | like | to-infinitive · passive | some people not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF» | |||||
| 3 | admire | participle | some people not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | like | present | real friends | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:12.
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 ×3, R8-pos-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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