Little lies at home, sentence 0
Little lies at home usually start small: Owen in Leeds took two chocolate biscuits from the tin before tea and said he hadn't.
Who acts: Little lies, Owen · What happens: start, take, say · To what, where: two chocolate biscuits, tin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Little lies at home» 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 (Little lies, Owen), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 start | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lies | nmod |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 start | advmod |
| 6 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 start | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 start | punct |
| 9 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 took | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Leeds | case |
| 11 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Owen | nmod |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 start | parataxis |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 biscuits | nummod |
| 14 | chocolate | chocolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 biscuits | compound |
| 15 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 tin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tin | det |
| 18 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 tea | case |
| 20 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | ccomp |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 had | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 start | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Little lies at home | small, usually property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Owen in Leeds | two chocolate biscuits | the tin | before tea | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme from tin=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Owen in Leeds not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:336-little-lies-at-home.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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