When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 16
Silence can be a lie when it lets someone innocent be punished.
Who acts: Silence, someone · What happens: be, let, punish · To what, where: lie, someone
This is a sentence of the lesson «When someone else takes your punishment» 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 (Silence, someone), 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 | Silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lie | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lie | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lie | det |
| 5 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lets | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lets | nsubj |
| 8 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lie | advcl |
| 9 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 lets | obj |
| 10 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 someone | amod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 punished | aux:pass |
| 12 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lets | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | Silence | a lie | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | present | Silence | someone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | punish | infinitive · passive | someone not said here | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
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:345-when-someone-else-takes-your-punishment.lesson:16.
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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