Why people lie, and what is not a lie, sentence 9
Fear of being punished is the most common reason people lie.
Who acts: Fear, people · What happens: punish, be, lie · To what, where: Fear, common reason
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 (Fear, 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 punished | mark |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 punished | aux:pass |
| 4 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Fear | acl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reason | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reason | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 common | advmod |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lie | nsubj |
| 11 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reason | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | punish | gerund · passive | Fear not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Fear | the common reason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | present | people | the common reason not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location reason=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:9.
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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