Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 24
Checking with a trusted adult before acting on a surprising story stops many tricks.
Who acts: Checking · What happens: check, trust, act, stop · To what, where: surprising story, many tricks
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 (Checking), 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 | Checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stops | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 adult | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 adult | det |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 adult | amod |
| 5 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Checking | obl |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 acting | mark |
| 7 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Checking | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 story | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | surprising | surprising | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acting | obl |
| 12 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tricks | amod |
| 14 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stops | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | gerund | with a trusted adult | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | act | gerund | a surprising story | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on story=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stop | present | Checking | many tricks | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trick=Eventuality |
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:24.
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 ×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.
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