When someone else takes your punishment, sentence 19
An excuse that works twice is still a lie, and the third time it is often seen through.
Who acts: excuse · What happens: work, be, see through · To what, where: lie
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 (excuse), 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 excuse | det |
| 2 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lie | 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 excuse | acl:relcl |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 works | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lie | cop |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 lie | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lie | det |
| 9 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux:pass |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 seen | advmod |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lie | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 seen | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lie | 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 | work | present | a excuse | twice property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a excuse | a lie | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see through | present · passive | lie | time | often property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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: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): 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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