Little lies at home, sentence 15
Small lies are easy to check, and each one caught makes it harder for people to believe you.
Who acts: Small lies, one, people · What happens: be, check, catch, make, believe · To what, where: one, thing, you
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 (Small lies, one, 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 check | mark |
| 6 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 makes | cc |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 makes | expl |
| 14 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 18 believe | mark |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 believe | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 believe | mark |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 harder | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 believe | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Small lies | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | check | to-infinitive | Small lies not said here | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | catch | participle | each one not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | present | each one | thing | hard property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | believe | to-infinitive | people | you | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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:15.
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 ×3, 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.
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