Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 3

In «The Boy Who Cried Wolf», a shepherd boy shouts «Wolf!» as a joke again and again; when a real wolf comes, nobody believes him and nobody comes.

Who acts: shepherd boy, real wolf, nobody · What happens: shout, come, believe · To what, where: Wolf

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 (shepherd boy, real wolf, 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	_	4 Boy	case
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Boy	punct
3	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boy	det
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 comes	obl
5	Who	who	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Boy	flat
6	Cried	Cried	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Boy	flat
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Cried	flat
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 Boy	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shouts	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boy	compound
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouts	nsubj
13	shouts	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 comes	conj
14	«	«	ADP	_	15 Wolf	case
15	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouts	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Wolf	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 Wolf	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 joke	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 joke	det
20	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shouts	obl
21	again	again	ADV	_	13 shouts	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 again	cc
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 again	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 comes	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 comes	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wolf	det
27	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wolf	amod
28	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comes	nsubj
29	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 believes	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comes	punct
31	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 believes	nsubj
32	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 comes	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 believes	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 nobody	cc
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 believes	conj
36	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 comes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	a shepherd boy	Wolf	again	as a joke	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	come	present	a real wolf				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	believe	present	nobody	Wolf			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	come	present				in the Boy	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in boy=Location

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:3.

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): R6-punct-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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