Promises to friends and to yourself, sentence 20
Small lies again after a promise of honesty are common, but each truth told makes the next one easier.
Who acts: Small lies, truth · What happens: be, tell, make, promise · To what, where: truth, next one, honesty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Promises to friends and to yourself» 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 (Small lies, truth), 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 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lies | amod |
| 2 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 common | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 lies | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 promise | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 promise | det |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 common | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 honesty | case |
| 8 | honesty | honesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 promise | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 common | cop |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 makes | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 truth | det |
| 14 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 truth | acl |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 common | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 20 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 common | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Small lies | after a promise of honesty | common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | each truth not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | present | each truth | the next one | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | |||
| 4 | promise | honesty | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:359-promises-to-friends-and-to-yourself.lesson:20.
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. 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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