Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 21

A boy in Texas believed an online seller who said a game console was real and cheap; he sent his birthday money and got nothing back.

Who acts: boy, online seller, game console · What happens: believe, say, be, send, get back · To what, where: online seller, birthday money, nothing · 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 (boy, online seller, game console), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seller	det
7	online	online	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seller	amod
8	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seller	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 console	det
12	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 console	compound
13	console	console	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 real	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 real	cop
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cheap	cc
17	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 real	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 sent	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 sent	nsubj
20	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	parataxis
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 money	nmod:poss
22	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 money	compound
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sent	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 got	cc
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sent	conj
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 got	obj
27	back	back	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	a boy in Texas	a online seller		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seller=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	a online seller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a game console		real property	tree rules
4	be		a game console not said here			tree rules
5	send	past	boy	boy's birthday money		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
6	get back	past	boy not said here	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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:21.

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 ×1. 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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