Saying no honestly, harmful lies, cheating in games and tests, jokes and teasing, sentence 9
Pretending to be hurt to get attention is a false alarm, and false alarms make it harder to be believed later.
Who acts: Pretending, false alarms · What happens: pretend, hurt, get, be, make, believe · To what, where: attention, false alarm
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 (Pretending, false alarms), 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 alarm | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hurt | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurt | aux:pass |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hurt | advcl |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 alarm | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 alarm | det |
| 10 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 alarm | amod |
| 11 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 make | cc |
| 14 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 alarms | amod |
| 15 | alarms | alarm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | nsubj |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 harder | nsubj |
| 18 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 believed | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 believed | aux:pass |
| 21 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 harder | advcl |
| 22 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 believed | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 alarm | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | hurt | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | attention | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Pretending | a false alarm | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | present | false alarms | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 6 | believe | to-infinitive · passive | false alarms not said here | late property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» |
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:9.
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 ×1, 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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