Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 2
Being loyal to a friend means being kind to them, not lying to cover harm they did.
Who acts: loyal, reasons · What happens: be, mean, not lie, cover, do · To what, where: reasons, harm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (loyal, 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 loyal | cop |
| 2 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 friend | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loyal | obl |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kind | cop |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kind | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lying | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 lying | advmod |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cover | mark |
| 15 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lying | advcl |
| 16 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cover | obj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 harm | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | 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 | is | gerund | to a friend; loyal property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | loyal | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | reasons = reason | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not lie | gerund | loyal not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cover | to-infinitive | loyal not said here | harm | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harm=Destination | ||||
| 6 | do | past | reasons = reason | harm not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality |
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:2.
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): R7-rel-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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