Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 17

The fix for an excuse is always the same: tell the real reason, take the consequence, and next time ask properly or say what you are afraid of.

Who acts: fix, you · What happens: be, tell, take, ask, say · To what, where: real reason, consequence · 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 (fix, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fix	det
2	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 same	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 excuse	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 excuse	det
5	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fix	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 same	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reason	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 reason	amod
14	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 take	punct
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tell	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 consequence	det
18	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ask	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 ask	cc
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ask	obl:unmarked
23	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 take	conj
24	properly	properly	ADV	_	23 ask	advmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 say	cc
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ask	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 afraid	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 afraid	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 afraid	cop
30	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 say	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	30 afraid	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fix for a excuse			always, same property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		the real reason			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
3	take	infinitive		the consequence			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consequence=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive			time	properly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is	present	you			afraid 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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:17.

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 ×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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