Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 8
What counts is the facts, and over time what people do, not how often they say «trust me».
Who acts: facts, people · What happens: count, be, do, not say, trust · To what, where: facts, time, people · 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 (facts, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 counts | nsubj |
| 2 | counts | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 facts | csubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 facts | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 facts | det |
| 5 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 time | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 facts | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 do | obj |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 say | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 say | advmod |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 often | advmod |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 say | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 say | nsubj |
| 18 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | parataxis |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 trust | punct |
| 20 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 say | ccomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 trust | obj |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 20 trust | punct |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 facts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | the facts and time | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the facts and time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | present | people | time | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not say speech: assert | present | people | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | trust in a quote | infinitive | people | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:8.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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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