White lies and kind silence, sentence 13
When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lead them into embarrassment later.
Who acts: someone, encouragement, false perfect, your · What happens: act, be, lead, answer · To what, where: answer, people, embarrassment
This is a sentence of the lesson «White lies and kind silence» 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 (someone, encouragement, false perfect, your), 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 | ADV | _ | 4 act | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 act | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 act | aux |
| 4 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lead | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 answer | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 answer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 act | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 act | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 perfect | det |
| 10 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 perfect | amod |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 perfect | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 perfect | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 perfect | cop |
| 14 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lead | nsubj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 14 perfect | punct |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lead | aux |
| 17 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lead | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 embarrassment | case |
| 20 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lead | obl |
| 21 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 lead | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | future | someone | your answer | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on answer=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | encouragement | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | can | a false perfect | people | embarrassment | late property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into embarrassment=Destination | ||
| 4 | answer | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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:196-white-lies-and-kind-silence.lesson:13.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/13/