Little lies at home, sentence 2
He lost his pudding, and Mum said it was more for the lie than for the biscuits.
Who acts: Owen, Mum, pudding · What happens: lose, say, be · To what, where: pudding · 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 (Owen, Mum, pudding), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pudding | nmod:poss |
| 4 | pudding | pudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lost | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 more | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | cop |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 said | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 lie | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lie | det |
| 14 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 more | obl |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 biscuits | case |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 biscuits | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 biscuits | det |
| 18 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 more | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | Owen | Owen's pudding | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pudding=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mum | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | pudding | for the lie; than the biscuits; more 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:2.
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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