Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 15
Lie-detector machines (polygraphs) measure nervousness, like heartbeat and sweat, and honest people get nervous too, so they are not reliable.
Who acts: detector machines, honest people, people · What happens: measure, get, not be · To what, where: nervousness
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 (detector machines, honest people, 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 | Lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 detector | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 machines | punct |
| 3 | detector | detector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 machines | compound |
| 4 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 measure | nsubj |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 polygraphs | punct |
| 6 | polygraphs | polygraph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 machines | appos |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 polygraphs | punct |
| 8 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nervousness | nervousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measure | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heartbeat | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 heartbeat | case |
| 12 | heartbeat | heartbeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 measure | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sweat | cc |
| 14 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heartbeat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 get | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 get | cc |
| 17 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 get | nsubj |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 measure | conj |
| 20 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 get | xcomp |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 nervous | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reliable | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 reliable | advmod |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 reliable | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 reliable | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 reliable | advmod |
| 27 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 measure | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 measure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present | detector machines | nervousness | like heartbeat and sweat | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nervousness=Value | |||
| 2 | get | present | honest people | nervous property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | people | reliable property | 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:15.
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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