Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 10

Liam said a bruise came from falling, when a boy had pushed him, because he did not want to be a tell-tale.

Who acts: Liam, bruise, boy · What happens: say, come, fall, push, not want, be · To what, where: Liam, tell tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (Liam, bruise, boy), 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	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bruise	det
4	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	ccomp
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 falling	mark
7	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pushed	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 pushed	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pushed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pushed	aux
13	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pushed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 want	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 want	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 want	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 want	advmod
20	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	26 tale	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 tale	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tale	det
24	tell	tell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tale	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
26	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Liam		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	past	a bruise		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall	gerund	a bruise not said here		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	push	past · perfect	a boy	Liam	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not want	past · do-support	boy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	boy not said here	a tell tale	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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:10.

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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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