Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 3
A clue is a reason to ask gentle questions or check another way, not proof.
Who acts: clue · What happens: be, ask, check · To what, where: reason, gentle questions, way
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 (clue), 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 clue | det |
| 2 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reason | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reason | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 reason | det |
| 5 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reason | acl |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 questions | amod |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 check | cc |
| 11 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 check | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proof | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 proof | advmod |
| 16 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reason | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reason | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a clue | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | gentle questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | another way | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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:3.
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): no change. 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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