Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 18
Stories, plays, films and games of pretend are shared make-believe, not lies, because everyone knows they are not real.
Who acts: everyone, tales · What happens: share, know, not be · To what, where: Stories · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (everyone, tales), 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 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shared | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 plays | punct |
| 3 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stories | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 films | punct |
| 5 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stories | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 games | cc |
| 7 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stories | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pretend | case |
| 9 | pretend | pretend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 games | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shared | aux:pass |
| 11 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | make | make | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shared | parataxis |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 believe | punct |
| 14 | believe | believe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lies | advmod |
| 17 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 believe | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lies | punct |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 knows | mark |
| 20 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 knows | nsubj |
| 21 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shared | advcl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 real | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 real | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 real | advmod |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 knows | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · passive | Stories and plays and films and games of pretend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know | present | everyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | tales = tale | real 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:195-why-people-lie.lesson:18.
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 ×2, 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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