Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 8

You do not owe everyone a reason for saying no, so you rarely need to invent one; «Thanks, but I can't come» is enough.

Who acts: You, reason, » · What happens: not owe, say, need, invent, not come, be · To what, where: reason, everyone, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 owe	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 owe	advmod
4	owe	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 owe	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owe	obj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 saying	mark
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 reason	acl
10	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 saying	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 need	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 need	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 need	nsubj
14	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	15 need	advmod
15	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 owe	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 invent	mark
17	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 need	xcomp
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 invent	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Thanks	punct
20	«	«	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Thanks	compound
21	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 come	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 come	nsubj
25	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 come	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 come	advmod
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 Thanks	conj
28	»	»	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 enough	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 enough	cop
30	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owe	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 owe	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not owe	present · do-support	You	a reason	everyone		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Goal reason=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a reason not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	need	present	you			rarely property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	invent not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	one			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Result
5	not come in a quote	can	a reason = reason				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	»			enough property	tree rules

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:8.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/333-saying-no-honestly-harmful-lies-cheating-jokes-and-teasing/8/