Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 21

Pretending to be asleep to get out of a job is a kind of lie, even without words.

Who acts: Pretending · What happens: pretend, be, get out · To what, where: job, kind

This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 (Pretending), 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	Pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kind	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	4 asleep	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretending	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asleep	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 job	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 out	fixed
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 job	det
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kind	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 lie	case
15	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 words	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	19 words	advmod
18	without	without	ADP	_	19 words	case
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kind	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund				tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive			asleep property	tree rules
3	get out	to-infinitive		a job		tree rules
4	is a	present	Pretending	a kind	of lie; without words	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:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:21.

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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