Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 25
Many lies are told to avoid trouble, but they usually lead to more trouble when found out.
Who acts: Many lies, People · What happens: tell, avoid, lead, find out · To what, where: Many lies, trouble · 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 (Many lies, People), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 avoid | mark |
| 6 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 told | xcomp |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 avoid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lead | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 lead | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lead | nsubj |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 lead | advmod |
| 12 | lead | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 trouble | case |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 trouble | amod |
| 15 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lead | obl |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 found | mark |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 lead | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 found | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | Many lies | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | avoid not said to happen | to-infinitive | Many lies not said here | trouble | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent trouble=Location | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | People | to more trouble; usually property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to trouble=Patient | ||||
| 4 | find out | participle | People not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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:25.
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): R1-cc-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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