Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 6
Example: a boy in Florida swears «cross my heart» that he saw a shark in the pool.
Who acts: boy · What happens: swear, cross, see · To what, where: heart, shark, pool
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), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 boy | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swears | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Florida | case |
| 6 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 boy | nmod |
| 7 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Example | appos |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 cross | punct |
| 9 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swears | xcomp |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cross | obj |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 cross | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 swears | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shark | det |
| 17 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pool | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pool | det |
| 20 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | a boy in Florida | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cross in a quote | infinitive | a boy in Florida not said here | my heart | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | boy | a shark | the pool | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=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:6.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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