Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 10
Avoiding eye contact does not prove a lie; shy, nervous or autistic people may do it while telling the truth.
Who acts: Avoiding, shy people · What happens: avoid, not prove, do, tell · To what, where: eye contact, lie, 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 (Avoiding, 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 | Avoiding | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 prove | csubj |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 contact | compound |
| 3 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Avoiding | obj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prove | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 prove | advmod |
| 6 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lie | det |
| 8 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prove | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shy | punct |
| 10 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nervous | punct |
| 12 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shy | conj |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 autistic | cc |
| 14 | autistic | autistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shy | conj |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 do | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 do | aux |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prove | parataxis |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 do | obj |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 telling | mark |
| 20 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 do | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 truth | det |
| 22 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 telling | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | gerund | eye contact | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent contact=Location | |||||
| 2 | not prove | present · do-support | Avoiding | a lie | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lie=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | may | shy people | lie | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | gerund | shy people not said here | the 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:10.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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