Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 15

A girl hid her peas under her plate and said she had eaten them; when the plate was lifted, the peas rolled out.

Who acts: girl · What happens: hide, say, eat, lift, roll out · To what, where: peas, plate · 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 (girl), 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	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 peas	nmod:poss
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	obj
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 plate	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 plate	nmod:poss
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	conj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eaten	aux
13	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eaten	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lifted	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 lifted	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plate	det
18	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lifted	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 lifted	aux:pass
20	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 eaten	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lifted	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 peas	det
23	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lifted	nsubj:pass
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 peas	acl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 rolled	compound:prt
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hid	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	past	a girl	girl's peas	girl's plate	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pea=Patient under plate=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	a girl not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	past · perfect	girl	peas = pea		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	lift	past · passive		the plate		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	roll out	participle		the peas not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:15.

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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