Little lies at home, sentence 13

Lies are easy to check (a dry toothbrush, a teacher asking about chapter five, a boy looking it up), and once you are caught in a small lie, people stop trusting your big truths too.

Who acts: Lies, dry toothbrush, boy, people · What happens: be, check, ask, look up, catch, stop · To what, where: dry toothbrush, chapter, you, small lie, big truths

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 (Lies, dry toothbrush, boy, people), 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	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 easy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	csubj
6	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 toothbrush	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toothbrush	det
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 toothbrush	amod
9	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 check	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 teacher	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 teacher	det
12	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 toothbrush	conj
13	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 toothbrush	acl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 chapter	case
15	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asking	obl
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 chapter	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 looking	nsubj
20	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 easy	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 looking	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 looking	compound:prt
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 looking	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 caught	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 caught	cc
26	once	once	SCONJ	_	29 caught	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 caught	nsubj:pass
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 caught	aux:pass
29	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 easy	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 lie	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lie	det
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lie	amod
33	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stop	punct
35	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stop	nsubj
36	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	conj
37	trusting	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 stop	xcomp
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 truths	nmod:poss
39	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 truths	amod
40	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trusting	obj
41	too	too	ADV	_	37 trusting	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lies			easy property	tree rules
2	check	to-infinitive		a dry toothbrush and a teacher			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toothbrush=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	gerund	a dry toothbrush and a teacher not said here			about chapter	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about chapter=Topic
4	look up	gerund	a boy	chapter			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
5	catch	present · passive		you	a small lie		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	stop	present	people				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	trust	gerund	people not said here	your big truths			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Theme

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:13.

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. 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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