Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 24
When people lie about where they are going, nobody knows where to look if something goes wrong.
Who acts: people, nobody, something · What happens: lie, go, know, look · 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 (people, nobody, something), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 lie | mark |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 knows | advcl |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 going | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lie | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 look | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knows | ccomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 goes | mark |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 goes | nsubj |
| 17 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | advcl |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 goes | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | People | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | present | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | go a condition, not said to happen | present | something | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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:24.
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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