Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 26
Making an excuse to skip a visit can hurt an old relative who was looking forward to it.
Who acts: Making, old relative · What happens: make, skip, hurt, look · To what, where: excuse, visit, old relative, relative
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 (Making, old relative), 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 | Making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hurt | csubj |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 excuse | det |
| 3 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Making | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 skip | mark |
| 5 | skip | skip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 excuse | acl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 visit | det |
| 7 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skip | obj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 hurt | aux |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 relative | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 relative | amod |
| 12 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hurt | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looking | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | aux |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 relative | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | a excuse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset excuse=Product | |||||
| 2 | skip | to-infinitive | a visit | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | can | Making | a old relative | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relative=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | a old relative | relative | forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=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:26.
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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