Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 22

A boy in Ohio lied that he was at a friend's house when he went to the lake; he fell in and nobody knew where to look for him, and it took hours to find him cold and scared.

Who acts: boy, nobody · What happens: lie, be, go, fall in, know, look · To what, where: house, lake, boy · 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 (boy, nobody), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 house	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 house	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 house	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	13 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 house	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 friend	case
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	ccomp
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 went	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 house	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 lake	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 lake	det
19	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fell	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 fell	nsubj
22	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lied	parataxis
23	in	in	ADV	_	22 fell	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 knew	cc
25	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 knew	nsubj
26	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fell	conj
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 look	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 look	mark
29	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 knew	ccomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 look	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 took	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 took	cc
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 took	expl
35	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lied	conj
36	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 took	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 find	mark
38	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 took	csubj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 find	obj
40	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 find	xcomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 scared	cc
42	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cold	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lied	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	a boy in Ohio					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	boy		a friend's house			tree rules
3	go	past	boy		the lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
4	fall in	past	boy					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	past	nobody					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	look	to-infinitive					for boy	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme
7	take	past	a boy in Ohio not said here	lake		hour		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	find	to-infinitive		boy			cold property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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:22.

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 ×2. 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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