Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 2
People lie for understandable reasons: to escape trouble, to be admired, to get something they want, or to cover for a friend.
Who acts: People · What happens: lie, escape, admire, get, want, cover · To what, where: trouble, 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 (People), 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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 reasons | case |
| 4 | understandable | understandable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reasons | amod |
| 5 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lie | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 escape | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 escape | mark |
| 8 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reasons | acl |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 escape | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 admired | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 admired | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 admired | aux:pass |
| 13 | admired | admire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 escape | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 escape | conj |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 want | nsubj |
| 19 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cover | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 cover | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 cover | mark |
| 23 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 escape | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 friend | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 friend | det |
| 26 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cover | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | People | for understandable reasons | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | People not said here | trouble | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trouble=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | admire | to-infinitive · passive | People not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | People not said here | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | want | present | People | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | cover | to-infinitive | People not said here | for a friend | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:2.
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): no change. 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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