Why people lie, harmful lies and cheating in games and marks, sentence 7
Honesty is tested in small things too: being the banker in a game, admitting you were tagged, not faking a fall, and telling a teacher when a mistake gave you extra marks.
Who acts: mistake · What happens: test, be, admit, tag, not fake, tell · To what, where: Honesty, small things, banker, game, you, fall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mistake), 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 | Honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tested | aux:pass |
| 3 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 things | case |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tested | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 tested | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 banker | punct |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 banker | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 banker | det |
| 11 | banker | banker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tested | parataxis |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 game | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 game | det |
| 14 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banker | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 admitting | punct |
| 16 | admitting | admit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 banker | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 tagged | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tagged | aux:pass |
| 19 | tagged | tag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 admitting | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 faking | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 faking | advmod |
| 22 | faking | fake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 admitting | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 fall | det |
| 24 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 faking | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 telling | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 telling | cc |
| 27 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 faking | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 teacher | det |
| 29 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 telling | obj |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 gave | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 mistake | det |
| 32 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | nsubj |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 telling | advcl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | iobj |
| 35 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 marks | amod |
| 36 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gave | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tested | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | present · passive | Honesty | small things | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | the banker | a game | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | admit speech: other | gerund | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | tag | past · passive | you | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 5 | not fake | gerund | a fall | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=Patient | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | gerund | a teacher | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | give | past | a mistake | extra marks | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mark=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:312-honest-reasons-false-alarms-and-fair-marks.lesson:7.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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