Little lies at home, sentence 5
Two biscuits are nothing much; a lie told to someone's face makes them wonder what else is not true.
Who acts: Two biscuits, lie, biscuits · What happens: be, tell, make, wonder, not be · To what, where: lie, face, biscuits · 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 (Two biscuits, lie, biscuits), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 biscuits | nummod |
| 2 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 much | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 much | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lie | det |
| 8 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lie | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 face | case |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 face | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 someone | case |
| 13 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 makes | obj |
| 16 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 makes | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 true | nsubj |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 what | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 true | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 true | advmod |
| 21 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wonder | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Two biscuits | nothing obl:unmarked; much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | a lie not said here | someone's face | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to face=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | a lie | biscuits = biscuit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | infinitive | biscuits = biscuit not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | true 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:5.
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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