Lies that do real harm, sentence 2
Other lies are dangerous because the people who keep you safe need the truth: doctors and nurses, parents who need to know where you are, and emergency services.
Who acts: Other lies, people, parents, you · What happens: be, keep, need, know · To what, where: you, truth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Other lies, people, parents, 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dangerous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | cop |
| 4 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 need | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 need | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | obj |
| 11 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 12 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dangerous | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 need | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 doctors | punct |
| 16 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 truth | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 nurses | cc |
| 18 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doctors | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 parents | punct |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doctors | conj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 need | nsubj |
| 22 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 parents | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 know | mark |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 need | xcomp |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 know | ccomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 where | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 where | cop |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 services | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 services | cc |
| 30 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 services | compound |
| 31 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 doctors | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Other lies | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the people | you | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | need | present | the people | the truth and doctors and nurses and parents and emergency services | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot truth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | need | present | parents | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | parents not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules |
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:2.
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 ×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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