Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 17
People often remember events in their own favour without meaning to lie.
Who acts: People · What happens: remember, mean, lie, favour · To what, where: events, own favour
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 (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 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 remember | advmod |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remember | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 favour | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 favour | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 favour | amod |
| 8 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 events | nmod |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 meaning | mark |
| 10 | meaning | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 remember | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 lie | mark |
| 12 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 meaning | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present | People | events | people's own favour | often property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent event=Theme | ||
| 2 | mean | gerund | People not said here | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lie not said to happen | to-infinitive | People not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | favour | people | nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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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