Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 7
Owning up early would have kept the trouble small.
Who acts: Owning · What happens: own up, keep · To what, where: 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 (Owning), 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 | Owning | own | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Owning | compound:prt |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Owning | advmod |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | aux |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trouble | det |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obj |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | gerund | early property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | keep | would · perfect | Owning | the trouble | small property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=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:7.
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 ×2, 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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