Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 23

People who lie to trick you often rush you, offer something too good to be true, or ask you to keep a secret.

Who acts: People · What happens: lie, trick, rush, offer, be, ask · To what, where: you, something, secret

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	8 rush	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lie	nsubj
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 trick	mark
5	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 trick	obj
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 rush	advmod
8	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 rush	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offer	punct
11	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rush	conj
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 offer	obj
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 good	advmod
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 something	amod
15	to	to	PART	_	17 true	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 good	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 rush	conj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 ask	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 secret	det
25	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rush	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed polarity=neg

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lie	present	People				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	trick	to-infinitive	People not said here	you			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	rush	present	People	you		often property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Agent
4	offer	present	People not said here	something			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent something=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	People not said here			true property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	People not said here		you		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here	a secret			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme

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:23.

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, R8-pos-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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