Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 23
A girl in Leeds lied to avoid trouble about a broken phone; when it came out, her parents trusted her less, and she lost the phone for a month.
Who acts: girl, trouble, parents · What happens: lie, avoid, break, come out, trust, lose · To what, where: trouble, girl, phone
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 (girl, trouble, parents), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lied | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 avoid | mark |
| 7 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lied | advcl |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avoid | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 phone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 phone | det |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 phone | amod |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trouble | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lied | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 came | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trusted | punct |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 trusted | nsubj |
| 21 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 trusted | obj |
| 23 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 trusted | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lost | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lost | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lost | nsubj |
| 27 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 trusted | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 phone | det |
| 29 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 month | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 month | det |
| 32 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lost | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lied | 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 | lie | past | a girl in Leeds | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | a girl in Leeds not said here | trouble | about a broken phone | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location | |||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | come out | past | trouble | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trust | past | girl's parents | girl | less property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Theme | |||
| 6 | lose | past | girl | the phone | month | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Eventuality |
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:23.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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