Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 6
Now he must invent more lies to cover the first one, and when the truth comes out he is in trouble for the window and for the lie.
Who acts: story, truth · What happens: invent, cover, come out, be · To what, where: more lies, first one, trouble
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 (story, truth), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 invent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invent | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 invent | aux |
| 4 | invent | invent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 lies | amod |
| 6 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 invent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 cover | mark |
| 8 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invent | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cover | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trouble | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 trouble | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 comes | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 truth | det |
| 16 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 comes | nsubj |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 trouble | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 comes | compound:prt |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 trouble | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 trouble | cop |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invent | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 window | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 window | det |
| 25 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trouble | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lie | cc |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 lie | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lie | det |
| 29 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 window | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | must | story | more lies | now | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Result | |||
| 2 | cover | to-infinitive | story not said here | the first one | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come out | present | the truth | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | story | trouble | for the window and the lie | tree rules |
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:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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