Little lies at home, sentence 16
An excuse that is not true, like «the dog ate my homework», is a lie in a costume.
Who acts: excuse, dog · What happens: not be, eat, be · To what, where: homework, lie, costume
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 (excuse, dog), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 excuse | det |
| 2 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 true | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 true | advmod |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 excuse | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 8 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 ate | mark |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | advcl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 homework | nmod:poss |
| 14 | homework | homework | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | obj |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 12 ate | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 excuse | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lie | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lie | det |
| 19 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 costume | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 costume | det |
| 22 | costume | costume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lie | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | a excuse | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat in a quote | past | the dog | my homework | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homework=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a excuse | a lie | a costume | tree rules |
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:16.
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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