Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 11
A story whose details keep changing is a clue to check gently, not proof, because people do forget details.
Who acts: details, story, people · What happens: keep, change, be, check, forget · To what, where: clue, details
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 (details, story, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clue | nsubj |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 details | nmod:poss |
| 4 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 6 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 keep | xcomp |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 clue | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 clue | det |
| 9 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 check | mark |
| 11 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 clue | acl |
| 12 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 11 check | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proof | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 proof | advmod |
| 15 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gently | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forget | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 forget | mark |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forget | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forget | aux |
| 20 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 check | advcl |
| 21 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 forget | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 clue | 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 | keep | present | details | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | change | gerund | details not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a story | a clue | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | check | to-infinitive | gently property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | forget | present · do-support | people | details | 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:198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying.lesson:11.
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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