Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 1

Noses do not grow like Pinocchio's, and looking away does not prove anything: shy, nervous or autistic people often avoid eye contact while telling the complete truth.

Who acts: Noses, looking, shy people · What happens: not grow, look away, not prove, avoid, tell · To what, where: anything, eye contact, complete truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Telling when someone may be lying» 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 (Noses, looking, shy people), 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	Noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Pinocchio	case
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Pinocchio	case
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 prove	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 prove	cc
10	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 prove	csubj
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 looking	advmod
12	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prove	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 prove	advmod
14	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 prove	obj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 shy	punct
17	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 nervous	punct
19	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shy	conj
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 autistic	cc
21	autistic	autistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 shy	conj
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 avoid	nsubj
23	often	often	ADV	_	24 avoid	advmod
24	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 prove	parataxis
25	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 contact	compound
26	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 avoid	obj
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 telling	mark
28	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 avoid	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 truth	det
30	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 truth	amod
31	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 telling	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not grow	present · do-support	Noses		like Pinocchio	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look away	gerund			away property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	not prove	present · do-support	looking	anything		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
4	avoid	present	shy people	eye contact	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent contact=Location
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	shy people not said here	the complete truth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:1.

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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