Little lies at home, sentence 20
A guilty conscience, like not sleeping or not looking someone in the eye, is a sign that something needs putting right.
Who acts: guilty conscience, something · What happens: not sleep, not look, be, need, put · To what, where: someone, eye, sign, that
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 (guilty conscience, something), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 conscience | det |
| 2 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 conscience | amod |
| 3 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sign | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sleeping | punct |
| 5 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 sleeping | mark |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 sleeping | advmod |
| 7 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 conscience | acl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 looking | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 looking | advmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sleeping | conj |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 looking | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 eye | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eye | det |
| 14 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 conscience | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sign | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sign | det |
| 18 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 putting | obj |
| 20 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sign | acl:relcl |
| 22 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 needs | xcomp |
| 23 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 putting | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sign | 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 | not sleep | gerund | a guilty conscience not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not look | gerund | a guilty conscience not said here | someone | the eye | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a guilty conscience | a sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | need | present | something | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put not said to happen | gerund | something not said here | that | right property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent that=Goal |
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:20.
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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