Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 21
You can say no politely, like «Thanks, but I can't come», without inventing an excuse.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: say, not come, invent · To what, where: excuse · 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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 say | discourse |
| 5 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 3 say | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thanks | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Thanks | case |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thanks | punct |
| 9 | Thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Thanks | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 Thanks | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inventing | punct |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 inventing | mark |
| 19 | inventing | invent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 say | advcl |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 excuse | det |
| 21 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inventing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- suggest
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=suggest
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | can | You | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not come in a quote | can | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | invent | gerund | You not said here | a excuse | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Result |
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:21.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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