Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 21
People who cry wolf too often are not believed when they really need help.
Who acts: People · What happens: cry, not believe, need · To what, where: wolf, People, help
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), 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 | 9 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cry | nsubj |
| 3 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 People | acl:relcl |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | obj |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 often | advmod |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 cry | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believed | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 believed | advmod |
| 9 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 need | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 need | nsubj |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 need | advmod |
| 13 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 believed | advcl |
| 14 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 need | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | People | wolf | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | |||
| 2 | not believe | present · passive | People | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | need | present | People | help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:277-covering-up-false-alarms-and-fair-play.lesson:21.
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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