Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 12
Swearing hard, like «cross my heart», does not make a statement more true.
Who acts: Swearing · What happens: swear, cross, not make · To what, where: heart, statement
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 (Swearing), 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 | Swearing | swear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 make | csubj |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Swearing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cross | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 cross | mark |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 cross | punct |
| 6 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Swearing | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cross | obj |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 cross | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Swearing | punct |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 make | advmod |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 statement | det |
| 15 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 16 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 true | advmod |
| 17 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 make | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | gerund | hard property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cross in a quote | infinitive | my heart | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | Swearing | a statement | true property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset statement=Product |
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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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