Little lies at home, sentence 18
Pretending not to hear when you are called is still not doing what you were asked.
Who acts: Pretending · What happens: pretend, not hear, call, not do, ask · To what, where: you · 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), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 doing | csubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 hear | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hear | mark |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pretending | xcomp |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 called | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hear | advcl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 doing | aux |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 doing | advmod |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 doing | advmod |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 doing | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux:pass |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 doing | 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 | not hear | to-infinitive | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not do | present · progressive | Pretending | still | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past · passive | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:18.
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 ×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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