Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 0

People sometimes lie for reasons that feel good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something.

Who acts: People, reasons · What happens: lie, feel, protect, hide, get out · To what, where: friend, embarrassment, something

This is a sentence of the lesson «Covering up, false alarms and playing fair» 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 (People, reasons), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	nsubj
2	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
3	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 reasons	case
5	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lie	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feel	nsubj
7	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reasons	acl:relcl
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 feel	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 moment	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moment	det
11	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feel	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 protect	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 protect	mark
14	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 protect	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hide	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hide	mark
19	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 protect	conj
20	embarrassment	embarrassment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hide	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 protect	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	27 something	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 something	case
27	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 get	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	People				for reasons; sometimes property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	reasons			moment	good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	protect	to-infinitive	People not said here		a friend			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary
4	hide	to-infinitive	People not said here	embarrassment				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embarrassment=Patient
5	get out	to-infinitive	People not said here	something				tree rules

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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:0.

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 ×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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