Lies that do real harm, sentence 11
False alarms make it harder for you to be believed when you really need help.
Who acts: False alarms, you · What happens: make, believe, need · To what, where: trouble, you, help
This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» 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 (False alarms, you), 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 | False | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 alarms | amod |
| 2 | alarms | alarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | expl |
| 5 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 make | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 believed | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 believed | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 believed | aux:pass |
| 10 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 need | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 need | nsubj |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 need | advmod |
| 14 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 believed | advcl |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 need | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | False alarms | trouble | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 2 | believe | to-infinitive · passive | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | need | present | you | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:11.
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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