Little lies at home, sentence 17
Pretending to be sick does not make a fear go away; telling a grown-up what you are afraid of can.
Who acts: Pretending, fear, you · What happens: pretend, be, not make, not go away, tell · To what, where: fear, grown · 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 (Pretending, fear, you), 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 make | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 sick | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sick | cop |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fear | det |
| 9 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 telling | punct |
| 13 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 make | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grown | det |
| 15 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 telling | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 up | punct |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 grown | compound |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 afraid | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grown | acl:relcl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 can | mark |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | sick property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | Pretending | a fear | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not go away | infinitive | a fear not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | gerund | Pretending not said here | a grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | you | afraid property | 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:17.
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): no change. 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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