Lies that do real harm, sentence 18
A boy in Ohio lied that a classmate had stolen his money; the classmate was punished for weeks before the truth came out, and the boy lost his friends' trust.
Who acts: boy, classmate, truth, friends · What happens: lie, steal, punish, come out, lose, trust · To what, where: money, classmate, trust
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 (boy, classmate, truth, friends), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lied | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Ohio | case |
| 4 | Ohio | Ohio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 stolen | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 classmate | det |
| 8 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stolen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stolen | aux |
| 10 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lied | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 money | nmod:poss |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stolen | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 punished | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 classmate | det |
| 15 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 punished | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 punished | aux:pass |
| 17 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lied | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 weeks | case |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 punished | obl |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 came | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 truth | det |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 punished | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lost | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 lost | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boy | det |
| 28 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lost | nsubj |
| 29 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 punished | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 friends | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 trust | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 31 friends | case |
| 33 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lost | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lied | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a boy in Ohio | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | steal | past · perfect | a classmate | classmate's money | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | punish | past · passive | the classmate | week | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | the truth | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lose | past | the boy | boy's friends's trust | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trust=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | trust | boy's friends | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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:197-harmful-lies.lesson:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×1. 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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