Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 0
People usually lie for a reason that feels good at the moment: to protect a friend, to hide embarrassment, or to get out of something.
Who acts: People, reason · What happens: lie, feel, protect, hide, get out · To what, where: friend, embarrassment
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks» 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, reason), 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 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 lie | advmod |
| 3 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 reason | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reason | det |
| 6 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lie | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 feels | nsubj |
| 8 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reason | acl:relcl |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feels | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feels | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 protect | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 protect | mark |
| 15 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lie | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 friend | det |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 protect | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hide | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hide | mark |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 protect | conj |
| 21 | embarrassment | embarrassment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hide | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 protect | conj |
| 26 | out | out | ADV | _ | 25 get | advmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 something | case |
| 28 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 get | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | People | for a reason; usually property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | a reason | 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 | of something; out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of something=Source |
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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.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): 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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