Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 20

Lying can become a habit, and honesty can become a habit too with practice and help.

Who acts: honesty · What happens: lie, become · To what, where: habit

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 (honesty), 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	3 become	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 habit	det
5	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 become	cc
8	honesty	honesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 habit	det
12	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	xcomp
13	too	too	ADV	_	12 habit	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 practice	case
15	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 become	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 help	cc
17	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 practice	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 become	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	can		a habit		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	become	can	honesty	a habit	with practice and help	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:20.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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