Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 10

In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», when the boy really needed help nobody came, because he had lied before.

Who acts: Boy, nobody · What happens: cry, need, come, lie · To what, where: Wolf, help, Boy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing» 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 (Boy, nobody), 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	In	in	ADP	_	8 »	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	1 In	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boy	det
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
5	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 Cried	nsubj
6	Cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Boy	acl:relcl
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cried	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Boy	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 needed	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 needed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needed	nsubj
13	really	really	ADV	_	14 needed	advmod
14	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	advcl
15	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 needed	obj
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lied	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 lied	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lied	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lied	aux
22	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
23	before	before	ADV	_	22 lied	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	the Boy	Wolf		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	need	past	the boy	help		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme
3	come	past	nobody	the Boy		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past · perfect	Boy		before property	vn assuming_position-50 «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:333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing.lesson:10.

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): R5-strong ×6, R7-rel-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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