Covering up, false alarms and playing fair, sentence 8
Loyalty does not mean lying for a friend; covering up can let harm continue and drags you into the trouble too.
Who acts: Loyalty, covering, harm · What happens: not mean, lie, cover up, let, continue, drag · To what, where: you, trouble
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 (Loyalty, covering, harm), 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 | Loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mean | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mean | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 mean | advmod |
| 4 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 mean | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 10 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 let | csubj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 covering | compound:prt |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | aux |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 mean | parataxis |
| 14 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 continue | nsubj |
| 15 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drags | cc |
| 17 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 drags | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 trouble | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 trouble | det |
| 21 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drags | obl |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 drags | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mean | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · do-support | Loyalty | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | lie not said to happen | gerund | Loyalty not said here | for a friend | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cover up | gerund | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | let | can | covering | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | continue | infinitive | harm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | drag | present | covering not said here | you | the trouble | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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