Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 13
Lying to get something you want is still lying, even if the thing seems small.
Who acts: you, Lying, thing · What happens: lie, get, want, seem · To what, where: something
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 (you, Lying, thing), 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 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lying | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 get | mark |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Lying | xcomp |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 something | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lying | aux |
| 8 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 lying | advmod |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 seems | advmod |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 seems | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seems | nsubj |
| 15 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lying | advcl |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seems | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | lie | present · progressive | Lying | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | seem a condition, not said to happen | present | the thing | small property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:13.
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): R7-rel-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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