Little lies at home, sentence 14
Lying about a small thing usually gets a bigger consequence than the small thing itself.
Who acts: Lying · What happens: lie, get · To what, where: bigger consequence
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 (Lying), 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 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 gets | csubj |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 thing | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| 6 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 7 gets | advmod |
| 7 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 consequence | det |
| 9 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 consequence | amod |
| 10 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obj |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 thing | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gets | obl |
| 15 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 14 thing | nmod:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | about a small thing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about thing=Location | |||||
| 2 | get | present | Lying | a bigger consequence | than the small thing thing; usually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consequence=Stimulus |
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:14.
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): 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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