Little lies at home, sentence 3
At bedtime he owned up and said sorry for lying to her face.
Who acts: Owen · What happens: own up, say, lie · To what, where: bedtime · 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), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 bedtime | case |
| 2 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 owned | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 owned | nsubj |
| 4 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 owned | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 owned | conj |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 lying | mark |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own up | past | Owen | bedtime | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize | past | Owen not said here | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | Owen not said here | to Mum's face | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:3.
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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