Lies that do real harm, sentence 19
A girl in Leeds spread a made-up story about a friend online; the friend was so upset she would not come to school, and the girl had to face the head teacher and her parents.
Who acts: girl, friend · What happens: spread, make up, be, not come, have, face · To what, where: made story, school, head teacher
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 (girl, friend), 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 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 story | det |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 story | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 friend | det |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 story | nmod |
| 14 | online | online | ADV | _ | 5 spread | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 upset | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 friend | det |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 upset | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 upset | cop |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 upset | advmod |
| 20 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spread | parataxis |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 upset | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 school | case |
| 26 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 girl | det |
| 30 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 face | mark |
| 33 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 had | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 teacher | det |
| 35 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 teacher | compound |
| 36 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 face | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 parents | cc |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 parents | nmod:poss |
| 39 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 teacher | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | 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 | spread | past | a girl in Leeds | a made story | about a friend; online property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme about friend=Destination | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the friend | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not come | would | girl | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | have | past | the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | face | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | the head teacher and girl's parents | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme teacher=Destination |
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:19.
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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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