Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 16
Memory fills gaps by guessing, so honest people can remember the same event differently.
Who acts: Memory, honest people · What happens: fill, guess, remember · To what, where: gaps, same event
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 (Memory, honest 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 | Memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fills | nsubj |
| 2 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fills | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 guessing | mark |
| 5 | guessing | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fills | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remember | punct |
| 7 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 11 remember | cc |
| 8 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 remember | aux |
| 11 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fills | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 event | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 event | amod |
| 14 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remember | obj |
| 15 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 11 remember | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fills | 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 | fill | present | Memory | gaps | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | guess | gerund | Memory not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remember | can | honest people | the same event | differently property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme |
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:16.
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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