White lies and kind silence, sentence 22
A girl in Leeds told her friend her new haircut looked fine when the friend asked, even though she did not love it; the friend was happy, and nothing bad came of a kind word.
Who acts: girl, new haircut, friend, nothing · What happens: tell, look, ask, not love, be, come · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, new haircut, friend, nothing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 haircut | nmod:poss |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 haircut | amod |
| 10 | haircut | haircut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | ccomp |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | xcomp |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 asked | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 friend | det |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 looked | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 love | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 love | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 love | advmod |
| 23 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 happy | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 friend | det |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 happy | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 happy | cop |
| 29 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 told | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 came | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 nothing | cc |
| 32 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 came | nsubj |
| 33 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nothing | amod |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 happy | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 word | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 word | det |
| 37 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 word | compound |
| 38 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | past | a girl in Leeds | girl's friend | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | look | past | girl's new haircut | fine property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not love | past · do-support | girl | friend | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the friend | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | past | nothing | of a kind word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of word=Initial_Location |
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:22.
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 ×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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