Breaking things and hiding the pieces, sentence 17
An accident is easy to forgive; a lie about it is harder.
Who acts: accident, lie · What happens: be, forgive
This is a sentence of the lesson «Breaking things and hiding the pieces» 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 (accident, lie), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 accident | det |
| 2 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easy | cop |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 forgive | mark |
| 6 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easy | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 harder | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lie | det |
| 9 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 harder | nsubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lie | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 harder | cop |
| 13 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 easy | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a accident | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | forgive | to-infinitive | a accident not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | a lie about damage | hard 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:342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces.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 ×2. 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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