Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 19
A lie that works a few times usually gets found out in the end, often by chance.
Who acts: lie, chance · What happens: work, find out · To what, where: end
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 (lie, chance), 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 lie | det |
| 2 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 works | nsubj |
| 4 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lie | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 times | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 works | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 9 gets | advmod |
| 9 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | aux:pass |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 found | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chance | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 chance | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 chance | case |
| 18 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 found | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | 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 | work | present | a lie | time | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find out | present · passive | chance | in the end | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: 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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:19.
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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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