Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 1
Almost always there is an honest way that works better.
Who acts: honest way · What happens: be, work
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 (honest way), 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 | Almost | almost | ADV | _ | 2 always | advmod |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 works | nsubj |
| 9 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | acl:relcl |
| 10 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 works | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a honest way | there | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | work | present | a honest way | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:1.
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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