Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 22

A girl in Leeds believed a stranger who said her mum was in hospital and he would drive her there; she told a teacher first, and the teacher found out it was a lie.

Who acts: girl, stranger, mum, Leeds, teacher · What happens: believe, say, be, drive, tell, find out · To what, where: stranger, hospital, girl, teacher, lie · 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 (girl, stranger, mum, Leeds), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stranger	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mum	nmod:poss
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hospital	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hospital	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 hospital	case
14	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drive	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drive	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 drive	aux
18	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drive	obj
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 drive	advmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 told	nsubj
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believed	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 teacher	det
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	obj
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 told	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 teacher	det
30	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 told	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 found	compound:prt
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 lie	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 lie	cop
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 lie	det
36	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 believed	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past	a girl in Leeds	a stranger				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	a stranger					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	girl's mum			hospital		tree rules
4	drive	would	Leeds	girl		there		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	girl		a teacher		first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
6	find out	past	the teacher					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	is a	past	teacher	a lie				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:22.

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): R5-strong ×1, 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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