Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 18
Young children often lie out of fear, and kindness makes honesty easier for them.
Who acts: Young children, kindness · What happens: lie, make · To what, where: fear, honesty
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 (Young children, kindness), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 children | amod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 lie | advmod |
| 4 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fear | case |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lie | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 10 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lie | conj |
| 12 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 makes | xcomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 easier | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Young children | fear | often property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out fear=Location | |||
| 2 | make | present | kindness | honesty | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset honesty=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:18.
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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