Lies that do real harm, sentence 5
When a real wolf comes, nobody believes him.
Who acts: real wolf, nobody · What happens: come, believe · To what, where: wolf
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 (real wolf, nobody), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 comes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wolf | amod |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comes | nsubj |
| 5 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 believes | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comes | punct |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 believes | nsubj |
| 8 | believes | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 believes | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 believes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | a real wolf | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | believe | present | nobody | wolf | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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