Telling when someone may be lying, sentence 9
There is no single body sign that proves someone is lying.
Who acts: single body sign, someone · What happens: be, prove, lie
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 (single body sign, someone), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 sign | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sign | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | compound |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 proves | nsubj |
| 8 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sign | acl:relcl |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 lying | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lying | aux |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 proves | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no single body sign | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prove | present | no single body sign | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | present · progressive | someone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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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