Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 2

Some things are clues worth checking, like a story that changes every time it is told, or a claim that sounds too amazing to be true.

Who acts: things, story, time, claim · What happens: be, check, change, tell, sound · To what, where: clues, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (things, story, time, claim), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 things	det
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clues	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clues	cop
4	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clues	amod
6	checking	check	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 worth	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 story	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 checking	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 changes	nsubj
12	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 story	acl:relcl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changes	obl:unmarked
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux:pass
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 time	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 claim	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 claim	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 claim	det
21	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sounds	nsubj
23	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 claim	acl:relcl
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 amazing	advmod
25	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sounds	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	28 true	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 true	cop
28	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 amazing	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clues	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	some things	clues			tree rules
2	check	gerund	some things not said here			like a story or a claim	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	change	present	a story or a claim		time		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive	every time not said here	truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	sound	present	a claim			amazing property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	is	to-infinitive	a claim not said here			true 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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/198-telling-when-someone-may-be-lying/2/