Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 5

Getting away with a lie three times does not make it safe; it only makes the lie bigger when it comes out, and by then the grown-ups wonder about all the other times too.

Who acts: Getting, lie, grown ups · What happens: get away, not make, make, come out, grow, wonder · To what, where: lie

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 (Getting, lie, grown ups), 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	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 make	csubj
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Getting	advmod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 lie	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obl
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Getting	obl:unmarked
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 make	advmod
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 makes	nsubj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 makes	advmod
16	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lie	det
18	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makes	obj
19	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 makes	xcomp
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 comes	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 makes	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 comes	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 wonder	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 ups	cc
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 then	case
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 ups	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ups	det
29	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ups	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 grown	punct
31	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wonder	nsubj
32	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	parataxis
33	about	about	ADP	_	37 times	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 times	det
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 times	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 times	amod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 wonder	obl
38	too	too	ADV	_	32 wonder	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get away	gerund			time	with a lie; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not make	present · do-support	Getting	lie		safe property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
3	make	present	lie	the lie		big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material lie=Product
4	come out	present	lie				vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
5	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wonder speech: ask	present	the grown ups		time		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:5.

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 ×1, R6-punct-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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